Can a phone without GPS somehow return approximate coordinates?

Question

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Is it possible to somehow calculate the approximate latitude longitude through the operator?

Answer 1

There are 3 widely used methods:
1. GPS/GLONASS
2. Wi-Fi networks.
3. Communication towers, cell bases of operators, that is, the so-called cells. In the debug mode of the phone, it is easy to get to them. How to get to them in normal phone mode - I have no idea.
Some carriers also offer this service. They flog you by method 3. You can ask them and get a ready answer via SMS.
Methods 2 and 3 are carried out using databases with network coordinates.

Answer 2

Can. On the droid, if gps is turned off, the method for obtaining coordinates will return just the coordinates of the cell towers.

Answer 3

If there is WiFi and a network connection, then the coordinates are approximately calculated from the power of WiFi points in the visibility zone.
The coordinates of these points were "merged" into the network by other devices with WiFi, GPS and the Internet.
There is a link here - How to determine the location (GPS coordinates) of a WiFi point, by its MAC address, or the MAC addresses of nearby points?
You can try to check your point in the database for example (by mac address).