OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo

Re:OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo by jusuchin on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @11:19AM (#10419715)

I recently used maps.me while in Europe (Germany and Poland), with no data plan and only GPS on Airplane mode. With the downloaded maps, it was great. It even included entertainment, restaurants and some transportation options.

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Re:OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo by freehunter on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @01:00PM (#10420348)

I was actually surprised recently to find out that GPS works in airplane mode. Really fun to see what landmarks you're flying over when you see something cool out the airplane window.

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Re:OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo by awqrre on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @01:15PM (#10420432)

Wi-Fi also does works in airplane mode, on Android at least...

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Re:OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo by jdmichal on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @01:52PM (#10420646)

Your phone is not in airplane mode if it's making any kind of signal. You're just using Wi-Fi with the cellular modem disabled. Since GPS is only reading the satellite signals, it works fine.

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Re:OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo by 1ris on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @03:34PM (#10421249)

The last time I was on a plane I was asked to turn on pairplane mode during take-off and the landing. I could use it in the air, there even was a (extremly expensive) GSM network. Can't remember if GPS works in Airplain mode, though. But I'd suspect it to do since GPS is only passive.

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Re:OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo by awqrre on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @02:41PM (#10420934)

Maybe not from a legal standpoint, but you can put your phone in airplane mode and then re-activate Wi-Fi and it will still be in airplane mode... unless they changed the behavior on newer Android OS

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Re:OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo by kevinnk on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @09:20PM (#10422984)

I was skeptical so I just attempted this on my Galaxy S5 and it turns out you're right! Very interesting.

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Re:OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo by schoen on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @02:31PM (#10420872)

I thought there was some kind of aviation safety rule against using radio receivers on board commercial flights, maybe because of retransmission of signals on the receiver's intermediate frequency?

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Re:OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo by staticelf on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @05:37PM (#10421983)

How does that work on for example Norwegian planes that offer wifi sometimes?

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Re:OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo by yaur on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @04:19PM (#10421556)

It didn't used to but was enabled in iOS 8.3.

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Re:OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo by zoidb on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @11:34AM (#10419806)

I discovered it recently as well, also it's pretty snappy due to the offline data.

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