Location Services Setting

Using an original iPhone with 2.0 update.
Question about programs that request using location services....when these programs are running in the background, do they use these services, or just when they are open and on screen?
I'd like to just leave the setting "on" and not worry too much about battery life. Before the update, google maps would just locate without asking permission, so does thet mean "location services" was alway switched on in previous software versions?
Thanks much.

I don't think leaving it turned on uses any more battery since they wont be running in the background anyway.
The annoying thing I find with this feature is that when you turn it off, every time you use the camera it asks "can camera use your location" which is annoying always having to press "no", since the location feature blows on the original phone anyway

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