Steve Lombardi - Driving around Mapoint Location Server

Steve Lombardi - Driving around Mapoint Location Server is a 20 minute video on Microsoft's Channel 9 site that is an explanation and demo of Mappoint Location Server. Mappoint Location Server is very cool - even though it has the Mappoint name, it has little in common with Mappoint 2004. The purpose of the server is to track the location of cell phones, presumably for corporate employees. From there they can get plotted on a map, and you can do stuff like find who is the nearest to a particular location.

There's an explanation that the accuracy depends on the carrier. Some only provide the location of the nearest tower, while others use built-in GPS. Currently, only a few cell phone networks are supported (only Sprint in the US, BellMobility in Canada, and O2(?) in the UK).