You may need to create an application on your phone that will save your position data to a local db (on your phone) for later syncing when you get back to network or just plain writes to a text file on the local filesystem that you can transfer onto your main database An android phone should be able to do this even when there is no network (a quirk I'ved experienced is that GPRS must be ON for the thing to work) I would recommend a phone with Good battery life and some good internal storage (depending on where you save the data) Android version >= 2.3.4 Regards On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:36 PM, James Gathogo <james.lists@gathogo.co.ke>wrote:
Hi,
I plan to map some health facilities in Mandera and I need advice on your experience with mobile phones in getting GPS co-ordinates/locations.
I am assuming mobile phones depend on the infrastructure of say Safaricom to get the GPS locations. What happens in areas where there is no network, how will I get the GPS co-ordinates? Finally, in your experience, what particular phone model has worked for you; what would you recommend?
Thanks James
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