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Position requests, Landmarks, Gps data – Nokia XPRESSMUSIC 5800 User Manual

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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, a message is displayed

showing the service that is making the request. Select

Accept

to allow your position information to be sent or

Reject

to deny the request.

Landmarks

Select

Menu

>

Applications

>

Location

and

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.
GPS coordinates are expressed in the degrees and decimal

degrees format using the international WGS-84 coordinate

system.
Select

Options

and from the following:

New landmark

— Create a new landmark. To make a

positioning request for your current location, select

Current position

. To enter the position information

manually, select

Enter manually

.

Edit

— Edit or add information to a saved landmark (for

example, a street address).

Add to category

— Add a landmark to a category in

Landmarks. Select each category to which you want to add

the landmark.

Send

— Send one or several landmarks to a 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

.

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

>

Location

and

GPS data

.

Positioning settings

Select

Menu

>

Applications

>

Location

and

Positioning

.

Positioning methods

Integrated GPS

— Use the integrated GPS receiver of your

device.

Assisted GPS

— Use Assisted GPS (A-GPS) to receive

assistance data from an assistance data server.

Bluetooth GPS

— Use a compatible external GPS receiver

with Bluetooth connectivity.

Positioning (GPS)

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