Position Requests; Landmarks; Gps Data - Nokia N86 User Manual

calculate the coordinates of your location, the bar color
changes.
Initially, your device must receive signals from at least
four satellites to be able to calculate the coordinates
of your location. When the initial calculation has been
made, it may be possible to continue calculating the
coordinates of your location with three satellites.
However, the accuracy is generally better when more
satellites are found.

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
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With Landmarks, you can save the position information
of specific locations in your device. You can sort the
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saved locations into different categories, such as
business, and add other information to them, such as
Accept to
Reject to
> Landmarks.
addresses. You can use your saved landmarks in
compatible applications, such as GPS data.
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 select the location from
map, select Select from
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

Select Menu Applications
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GPS data is designed to provide route guidance
information to a selected destination, position
information about your current location, and traveling
map. To enter the position
Enter manually.
GPS data.
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