Position Requests; Gps Data; Route Guidance - Nokia E55 User Manual

• If the weather conditions are bad, the signal strength may
be affected.
• Some vehicles have tinted (athermic) windows, 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
position information to be sent or
Landmarks
With Landmarks, you can save the position information of
specific locations in your device. You can sort the 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.
Select Menu Applications
>
The coordinates in the GPS are expressed using the
international WGS-84 coordinate system.
Select Options and from the following:
New landmark — Create a new landmark. To make a
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positioning request for your current location, select
Current position. To select the location from the map,
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Accept to allow your
Reject to deny the request.
GPS > Landmarks.
>
select Select from map. To enter the position information
manually, select Enter
Edit — Edit or add information to a saved landmark (for
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example, a street address).
Add to category — Add a landmark to a category in
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Landmarks. Select each category to which you want to add
the landmark.
Send — Send one or several landmarks to a compatible
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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
Edit categories.

GPS data

GPS data is designed to provide route guidance information
to a selected destination, position information about your
current location, and traveling information, such as the
approximate distance to the destination and approximate
duration of travel.
Select Menu Applications
>

Route guidance

Select Menu Applications
>
Navigation.
Start the route guidance outdoors. If started indoors, the GPS
receiver may not receive the necessary information from the
satellites.
manually.
Options
GPS and GPS data.
>
GPS GPS data
> >
>
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