OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo

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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