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  • Jan 4, 2013, 08:29 AM
    pastor1189
    Gps
    Finding your car at the airport parking. Son has a Garmin GPs. Mostly
    I sit in the car with my cell phone on and he picks up relatives.

    , he also has a cell phone too besides the
    Garmin. Do you think he can locate me and the car in the massive international Miami airport?
  • Jan 4, 2013, 08:37 AM
    smoothy
    If you both know how to hack into the garmin to get your exact coordinates and aren't in a parking garge he could get to within 10 or twenty feet.

    If neither of you do... then no.

    Its possible only if you both knew how to do it.
  • Jan 4, 2013, 08:43 AM
    pastor1189
    I will have ask my son . He is a computer specialist
  • Jan 4, 2013, 08:47 AM
    Fr_Chuck
    Do both cell phones have GPS tracking, the smart phones have programs that show your location and routes you have traveled to other phones, In the US, I could use my phone or computer and know my sons exact location ( OK his phones exact location) anytime I wanted.
  • Jan 4, 2013, 08:51 AM
    smoothy
    When I mentioned coordinates... I am talking numerical coordinates... not physical adresses...

    I'm not familiar with the cell phone apps mentioned by Fr_Chuck or their capabilities.
  • Jan 4, 2013, 08:53 AM
    NeedKarma
    Is it a car-based GPS device or a portable one? There are many models of Garmin GPS devices. If you can mark a waypoint and send the coords to the phone then the phone can use a free app to navigate to those coords.
  • Jan 4, 2013, 11:45 AM
    pastor1189
    It a portable GPS . And the phones are both Tracfone.
  • Jan 4, 2013, 11:57 AM
    NeedKarma
    All handheld GPS units can mark a waypoint. You would do that from at parking spot, which may be a little innacurate if you are in the middle of a multi-floor facility since the GPS needs to see the sky.
    Then, from the airport you would select that waypoint and navigate to it.

    I didn't recognize that phone brand so I had to Google it. I'm pretty sure it's too old of a model to do any GPS functions.
  • Jan 4, 2013, 01:38 PM
    pastor1189
    Yes the tracfone does not have GPS capabilities
  • Jan 6, 2013, 08:33 AM
    cdad
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    All handheld GPS units can mark a waypoint. You would do that from at parking spot, which may be a little innacurate if you are in the middle of a multi-floor facility since the GPS needs to see the sky.
    Then, from the airport you would select that waypoint and navigate to it.

    I didn't recognize that phone brand so I had to google it. I'm pretty sure it's too old of a model to do any GPS functions.

    Tracphone is a pay as you go service. Not an actual cell phone. You can buy them anywhere and you buy minutes to use the phone.
  • Jan 6, 2013, 08:48 AM
    pastor1189
    I know I have a couple of tracfones They are not sophisticated phones. The portable Garmin GSP works okay. I am going to get a Nexus 7 that should do the trick
  • Jan 6, 2013, 05:01 PM
    NeedKarma
    Awesome. Let me know when you get the Nexus 7, I have the Galaxy 3. I can show you some excellent free apps.
  • Jan 7, 2013, 03:19 AM
    pastor1189
    Wonderful

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