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Re:CopFind - collaborative project to log speed traps by nirs on Saturday September 08, 2007 @07:07PM (#52317)
The phone network can locate your phone - so your phone can also know its location even without GPS. If your phone knows your location, and is connected to the web, it can work.
Re:CopFind - collaborative project to log speed traps by tocomment on Sunday September 09, 2007 @01:37PM (#52508)
If you can tell me how to do this using only a website (no phone specific programming) it would dovetail nicely into a startup idea I'm considering.

I figured it would require getting users to install my software on their phone somehow, dealing with phone companies, and learning something called "Symbian".