So many people (including myself) have complained about the lack of GPS in the iPhone. As Hadley Stern mentioned in an earlier post, “The iPhone has an accelerometer, something or other that detects when you move the iPhone to your ear, yet no GPS?”

We all know how you feel Hadley… Yesterday, Gregory NG posted an article on what OSX App you would most like to see in the iPhone, and guess what number one was? GPS!

So with the high demand of GPS for the iPhone, it comes as no surprise that someone has figured out another solution. Yeah, it isn’t the real deal, but it is something until we get those rumored 3G, GPS enabled iPhones next year.

Using, what they call, peer to peer location detection, Navizon has released a faux GPS system for your iPhone, which I hear, actually works. If you check installer.app often, then you might have noticed this new app that appeared yesterday morning. After creating a username and password, it takes about 30 seconds to pinpoint your exact location using towers and access points, also WiFi. Then it pushes your coordinates, by latitude and longitude, to many decimal places of degrees, to the map application.

“Some people with a GPS device collect the location information of cell towers and wifi access points. Then they share it with the rest of the network and everyone else who doesn’t have a GPS device can then simulate a Virtual GPS thanks to the data collected by others. This is why we call it Peer to Peer Positioning.”

It isn’t actually exact location, but pretty darn close! Thank you Navizon for helping us iPhone users out. Why Apple didn’t come with something like this—who knows, but you did and we are grateful.