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iPhone 3gs compass Screen shot location

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cyberguyiphone

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Nov 18, 2008
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I was just recently looking at the new iPhone 3GS screenshot of the compass application. The location given by the Lat/long on the screen locates to a random location in the middle of China. Weird, I would think they would have made it a coordinate in cupertino. Any one else notice this?
 
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they probably thought no one would check such a thing!
 
That's really strange... but if you put a minus sign in front of the 122, suddenly that puts you in the Silicon Valley, just a couple of miles from downtown Cupertino. :)
 
cachehog said:
That's really strange... but if you put a minus sign in front of the 122, suddenly that puts you in the Silicon Valley, just a couple of miles from downtown Cupertino. :)
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The compass has a location of 37° 19 Min. 55 Sec. N and 122° 1 Min. 46 Sec W

this is
Latitude: 37° 19 Min. 55 Sec.
Longitude: minus 122° 1 Min. 46 Sec.
as cachehog said, so the location is in fact in Cupertino - but not just Cupertino, it is Infinite Loop, Cupertino, Apple's HQ
http://atlas.mapquest.com/maps/map....9&latsec=55&longdeg=-122&longmin=1&longsec=46

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