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I've experienced that a couple of times, like the location unit is just frozen. Totally rebooting the phone will resolve it for me. I don't think it's an issue of no cell coverage, I think it's some bug in the iphone's location code. It can take the iphone a long time get a gps lock if...

You can buy a wifi GPS device to use with the touch - http://www.g-fi.com/gfi/index.php I haven't tried it, but it looks cool. Apple released an API so hardware developers could use the port on the iPhone and iPod touch in June. So I'd bet some wired external GPSes will be available in a few...

It's a heavyhanded solution, but if you jailbreak your phone, there are a bunch of utility apps that add shortcuts to options in the control panel. Apple won't allow those apps in the real app store though.

Yeah, we've found that we can record a track for about 4 hours with Gaia GPS. We use the proximity sensor to turn the screen off, so if it's in your pocket the screen won't be wasting energy, but it's definitely the limiting factor for iPhone GPSes. I've been testing a bunch of solar charging...

New iPhone app in store Hi Everyone, I thought you might be interested in my new iPhone app which launched yesterday, Gaia GPS (http://www.gaiagps.com) The app includes topo tiles of the US and Canada (including Alaska) from myTopo.com, which I think are better than national geographic tiles...