IPhones and 3G iPads log your location in an unencrypted file on the device

Post by jessedhillon » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 7:11 AM UTC

ugh wrote: post #191

jessedhillon wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay. So first, someone asked whether the iPhone triangulates position from cell towers or uses GPS. I responded that it does AGPS, and that in some ways AGPS is inferior to standalone AGPS. You objected to this, saying that AGPS is "actual GPS" which, in fact, it is not. If by "actual GPS" you mean standalone GPS, then you are wrong. I correctly pointed out to you that AGPS is not a standard definition, but a name f…

Ew, mate, you are using the wrong words there. Fair enough, AGPS may be inferior in a few devices but usually it is superior (i.e. has better startup times and is exactly like GPS in every other way).

Post by vipin001 » Mon, Apr 25, 2011, 4:46 AM UTC

xpaulbettsx wrote: post #92

tomkinstinch wrote: post #75

For those with jailbroken iPhones and SSH, the data can be accessed or copied directly. The information is stored in this file: /private/var/root/Library/Caches/locationd/consolidated.db The file can be viewed with any ol' SQLite browser, and the location information is stored in the "CellLocation" table. After using an iPhone 4 since release day, I have ~1400 entries.

To make it work with Pete Warden's app, add this block to the bottom of loadLocationDb, before the displayErrorAndQuit: if (!loadWorked) { loadWorked = [self tryToLoadLocationDB: @"/path/to/your/consolidated.db" forDevice: @"iPhone"]; }

Post by serialx » Sat, Apr 30, 2011, 3:16 PM UTC

rtheron wrote: post #195

serialx wrote: post #94

Created a GPX file generator. Use it to convert the database into a GPX file format. Open it up with Google Earth. https://github.com/serialx/iphonegpx

I'd love to use this data to geotag the photos I've taken on my digital camera over the past year, so I've downloaded this script along with the consolidated.db file into a directory, however, when I execute: python iphonegpx i get the below error, could you provide some more detailed usage instructions?: C:\Users\ \Desktop\serialx-iphonegpx-a124079\serialx-iphonegpx-a124079>pyth on iphonegpx.py File "iphonegpx.py",…