Position Requests; Landmarks; Gps Data - Nokia N97 User Manual

If you are indoors, go outdoors to receive a better
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signal.
If you are outdoors, move to a more open space.
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Ensure that your hand does not cover the GPS
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antenna of your device.
If the weather conditions are bad, the signal
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strength may be affected.
Some vehicles have tinted (athermic) windows,
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which may block the satellite signals.

Position requests

You may receive a request from a network service to
receive your position information. Service providers
may offer information about local topics, such as
weather or traffic conditions, based on the location of
your device.
When you receive a position request, the service that
is making the request is displayed. Select
allow your position information to be sent or
deny the request.

Landmarks

Select Menu Applications
>
Landmarks.
With Landmarks, you can save the position information
of specific locations in your device. You can sort the
Accept to
Reject to
Location and
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saved locations into different categories, such as
business, and add other information to them, such as
addresses. You can use your saved landmarks in
compatible applications, such as GPS data.
GPS coordinates are expressed using the international
WGS-84 coordinate system.
Select Options and from the following:
New landmark — Create a new landmark. To make
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a positioning request for your current location,
select Current position. To enter the position
information manually, select
Edit — Edit or add information to a saved landmark
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(for example, a street address).
Add to category — Add a landmark to a category
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in Landmarks. Select each category to which you
want to add the landmark.
Send — Send one or several landmarks to a
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compatible device. Your received landmarks are
placed in the Inbox folder in Messaging.
You can sort your landmarks into preset categories,
and create new categories. To edit and create new
landmark categories, open the categories tab, and
select Options Edit categories.
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GPS data

GPS data is designed to provide route guidance
information to a selected destination, position
Enter manually.
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