If there is a GPS capability on a smartphone, how might the investigator use it in the investigation?

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GPS can locate the user's activities, and, when used with a timeline, can place the user in the vicinity of a crime. Timelines are the meat and potatoes of digital forensic investigations. Because computers and mobile devices have a fairly accurate clock, examiners can match the activities on these devices to physical crime activities to do a pre-crime, peri-crime (during the crime event), and post-crime analysis of a suspect's behavior. For example, with the Garmin Nuvi 40 GPS, the UFED provides a timeline, but since this is a GPS the timeline is associated with a specific location. In addition to the timeline graph, there are specific entries noting where the GPS was located at a particular latitude and longitude at a particular time.
Following the track of locations using Google Maps and these coordinates is a straightforward way to track the progress of the GPS during some particular period of time. To make the tracking easier, the GPS provides a list of journeys, each with the coordinates of waypoints over the course of the trip. That can be correlated back to the timeline view for devices that have been used heavily, simplifying the tracking of the GPS on specific dates of interest. Additionally, the GPS provides a list of favorite destinations with their coordinates.