How can one acquire position in Non-Gps devices using j2me coding

Question

I know GPS technology is used to acquire postion but then how does one can aquire position in Non - GPS devices ? I heard about AGPS or Assisted GPS are there in any other technologies through which one can locate a position ?

(Most prefarable would be Nokia devices)

already discussed here See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9835652/does-getting-a-cell-id-of-mobile-device-will-work-to-get-accurate-posiiton-of-mo/9836129#9836129 baba — Baba, Mar 30 '12 at 07:51

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 29 '12 at 20:12

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On those phones where you do not have a GPS chip you can still get a location using the following:
MCC: Mobile Country Code
MNC: Mobile Network Code
LAC: Local Area Code
CellID

Unfortunately there is no standard way to get these values and different vendors have different System properties. You can see this at http://www.easywms.com/easywms/?q=en/node/3589

After you get these values you can fetch a lat/lon aproximation from services like http://www.opencellid.org/cell/list

answered Mar 29 '12 at 20:12

Telmo Pimentel Mota

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can i apply the above answer for Nokia enabled Non - Gps phones too – Yatin Mar 30 '12 at 06:45
Great list But then how could i query for lat/ lon from http://www.opencellid.org/cell/list through J2ME code?? – Yatin Mar 30 '12 at 07:58
First you must sign to get an API key. Then you can use the URLs described at http://www.opencellid.org/api – Telmo Pimentel Mota Mar 30 '12 at 20:02

How can one acquire position in Non-Gps devices using j2me coding

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