Filter
Top Products
6.11
VAR Training Manual
and Reference Guide
Nokia uses this setting for their factory Movie World, so instead
of downloading all the active tags in the database which include
multiple countries, users will only get the tags associated with the
country they are in.
Cell ID
Cell ID uses a location determined by triangulating the cell tow-
ers that a phone is using. Tags taken with active Cell ID will be
associated with the range of the active cell tower. If you are in
the Embarcadero area of San Francisco using the City Guide World
where Cell ID tag location was used, you’re going to download
the tags to your phone that were taken and associated only with
that area’s cell tower.
Cell tower ranges differ by area and region, so it’s hard to say how
far a tower can reach. While it’s a fairly specic range in urban
areas, the range can be quite extensive in rural areas. Cell ID is
an appropriate setting for a world where users will be trying to
locate a range of data, as in “nd me nearby movie theatres.”
Cell ID/GPS
Using the Cell ID/GPS setting combines the best of these two
technologies, using GPS when available, and using Cell ID as an
alternate when GPS is not available. With this setting, only those
tags taken within the Cell ID or GPS location will download to a
user’s device when in that area.
GPS Only
The GPS Only option provides precise location information by
connecting to the GPS satellite system. This setting requires an
active connection to the GPS system when creating tags with the
client on a mobile device.
If tags are taken with the GPS setting (and tags with this setting
can only be taken if the device’s GPS is active at the time of tag-
ging), then only those tags within those associated GPS coordi-
nates (with a range of 100 by 100 meters) will be downloaded.
If GPS is not active, the tags will not download, and the GPS un-
available icon will display signaling that the tags have not down-
loaded. When you move out of an area, the tags from previous
GPS coordinates are deleted from the device to avoid building up
a huge tag count on the phone.