Hi James! Thanks for all of your help in collaborating our Esri Dev Meet Up with your LA Spatial Meetup group. We are very excited and will see you tomorrow!

Someone in the Mac Forum said "I've found from playing with it, that with airplane mode OFF, and NO SERVICE, I've found that my position in google maps DOES update, indicating that the GPS chip is on..." Seems like some workaround involving Google Earth APIs might do the job. I wonder if Apple's facial recognition feature in iPhoto could be tweaked so that Google Earth could match what you show it through the airplane window?

James - An idea occurred to me that you might be able to work up into a fun app. Have you ever looked out the window of a jet and wondered what river that was, five miles down? The GPS would know, and you know maps.

Hey James!

I noticed that you're one of our new Organizers. I just wanted to say hello and thank you for stepping up as a leader.

I hope you're enjoying the site and finding everything okay!

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Keep us posted on how it goes with the new group. Best of luck!