Originally Posted by Game_Writer

Originally Posted by Billee

WiFi-only units use the location of the wireless network you are connected to.

Oh, that's a good one. For a moment, though, I thought you were serious. LOL.

kinda
Apple - iPad - Find your way easier with Maps on iPad.
"iPad with Wi-Fi finds your location using known Wi-Fi hotspots, and Wi-Fi + 3G models use Wi-Fi, GPS, and cellular towers."

Originally Posted by kierandill

Originally Posted by Game_Writer

Originally Posted by Billee

WiFi-only units use the location of the wireless network you are connected to.

Oh, that's a good one. For a moment, though, I thought you were serious. LOL.

kinda
Apple - iPad - Find your way easier with Maps on iPad.
"iPad with Wi-Fi finds your location using known Wi-Fi hotspots, and Wi-Fi + 3G models use Wi-Fi, GPS, and cellular towers."

Wow, you are kind of serious. Where I usually am, the only wifi's my iPad sees are private, like the one at my house. You don't get a myriad of wifi's when you live in the middle of nowhere.

Hi kind , thank for yr link , now I am clear .

Hmm. So my wifi-only iPad does not have gps. Wow, I didn't realize that. It sure does a dang good job finding itself then.

WiFi only iPads certainly can determine your location

Originally Posted by King Hal

WiFi only iPads certainly can determine your location

can determine your location but accuracy goes out the window.

you could be next to a wifi hotspot that someone registered in another country and the wifi only ipad would then think your in the other country.

iPad 3G are the only ones with GPS.

Originally Posted by Game_Writer

Originally Posted by Billee

WiFi-only units use the location of the wireless network you are connected to.

Oh, that's a good one. For a moment, though, I thought you were serious. LOL.

I was trying to cover up the horrifying truth. When you buy an iPad, one of the sales associates sneaks up behind you as the box is being opened and injects a GPS microchip in your hip.

Originally Posted by Game_Writer

I have had a GPS location on my iPad when I have had cell no service with AT&T on my iPhone, so it certainly must be using satellites.

And, here's a tougher question: since my iPad is wifi only, how could it be using cell towers anyway, unless it has the 3G hardware installed, but doesn't enable it for use?

Interesting...

Have you tried this in a vehicle to see how accurate it is? I'd be curious.

Home position is easy, the iPad has our address. But moving away from it?

If moving away, unless the wifi is off, the radio tries joining a network and gives its information. Can it be detected by public networks as it does so? Btw when the iPad is in sleep mode, wifi keeps emitting.

Is it possible for an IP or MAC address to give its position on a "web map"?

Well, I did the perfect test today. My wife and I went for a two hour cruise on the Saint Lawrence river this afternoon. The part we were at had a width of about four miles. In port I turned the iPad on with 3G working and opened iPad Maps in satellite view. About 20 minutes in, 3G faded to signal loss but our position kept updating precisely until the maps were gone. As we neared the coast 3G came back and the maps updated without real change to our actual positioning. After a while i turned 3G off. No difference, our position kept updating to around 20 feet.

There surely is a GPS onboard the iPad. Test confirmed. Having 3G only aids to keep the maps displaying in sync with position.

Originally Posted by iVan

Well, I did the perfect test today. My wife and I went for a two hour cruise on the Saint Lawrence river this afternoon. The part we were at had a width of about four miles. In port I turned the iPad on with 3G working and opened iPad Maps in satellite view. About 20 minutes in, 3G faded to signal loss but our position kept updating precisely until the maps were gone. As we neared the coast 3G came back and the maps updated without real change to our actual positioning. After a while i turned 3G off. No difference, our position kept updating to around 20 feet.

There surely is a GPS onboard the iPad. Test confirmed. Having 3G only aids to keep the maps displaying in sync with position.

Get MotionX GPS HD and you can download the maps and store them on the ipad. When 3G dies you still have your maps