Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-20 Thread Thomas Voß
On Jul 20, 2016 4:15 PM, "Alan Bell" wrote: > > On 15/07/16 14:56, Alberto Mardegan wrote: >> >> On 07/15/2016 12:41 PM, Sam Bull wrote: >>> >>> The first thing I'd like to see changed, is that the accuracy of >>> the location should consider the time that has passed since that >>> location record

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-20 Thread Alan Bell
On 15/07/16 14:56, Alberto Mardegan wrote: On 07/15/2016 12:41 PM, Sam Bull wrote: The first thing I'd like to see changed, is that the accuracy of the location should consider the time that has passed since that location recording. E.g. A GPS position might be 10m accuracy, but if it is 30s lat

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-16 Thread Sergio Schvezov
El viernes, 15 de julio de 2016 10h'02:57 ART, Dave Morley escribió: On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 13:43:32 +0100 Alan Bell wrote: On 15/07/16 13:00, Tomas Öqvist wrote: >> > How much of the location problem is actually software related? I > used a Bq Aquaris E4.5 for over a year and I agree that th

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-15 Thread Jonathan Meek
So I'd like to briefly put in my experience: on boot, the nearby scope shows me stuff from Texas or Kansas (I'm in NC), then I launch uNav get it to lock on my position which takes some moments, and then go back to Today/Nearby and refresh them with my actual real location. This is waay too te

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-15 Thread Thomas Voß
Thanks Alan, that's really helpful! Thomas On Jul 15, 2016 4:26 PM, "Alan Bell" wrote: > > > On 15/07/16 14:51, Thomas Voß wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Alan Bell wrote: >> >>> >>> On 15/07/16 14:02, Dave Morley wrote: >>> Alan your logic seems to be flawed, I get gps on go

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-15 Thread Alan Bell
On 15/07/16 14:51, Thomas Voß wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Alan Bell wrote: On 15/07/16 14:02, Dave Morley wrote: Alan your logic seems to be flawed, I get gps on google maps in the no no no. Google maps is fine, always. It subscribes to updates. This is about things that do *no

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-15 Thread Alan Bell
On 15/07/16 14:46, Michael Zanetti wrote: On 15.07.2016 15:27, Alan Bell wrote: > > >On 15/07/16 14:02, Dave Morley wrote: >>Alan your logic seems to be flawed, I get gps on google maps in the >no no no. Google maps is fine, always. It subscribes to updates. This is >about things that do*not*

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-15 Thread Alberto Mardegan
On 07/15/2016 12:41 PM, Sam Bull wrote: > The first thing I'd like to see changed, is that the accuracy of > the location should consider the time that has passed since that > location recording. E.g. A GPS position might be 10m accuracy, but > if it is 30s later, then that should give something li

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-15 Thread Thomas Voß
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > On 07/15/2016 12:41 PM, Sam Bull wrote: >> The first thing I'd like to see changed, is that the accuracy of >> the location should consider the time that has passed since that >> location recording. E.g. A GPS position might be 10m accurac

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-15 Thread Thomas Voß
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Alan Bell wrote: > > > On 15/07/16 14:02, Dave Morley wrote: >> >> Alan your logic seems to be flawed, I get gps on google maps in the > > no no no. Google maps is fine, always. It subscribes to updates. This is > about things that do *not* subscribe to updates, th

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-15 Thread Michael Zanetti
On 15.07.2016 15:27, Alan Bell wrote: > > > On 15/07/16 14:02, Dave Morley wrote: >> Alan your logic seems to be flawed, I get gps on google maps in the > no no no. Google maps is fine, always. It subscribes to updates. This is > about things that do *not* subscribe to updates, things that just

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-15 Thread Alan Bell
On 15/07/16 14:02, Dave Morley wrote: Alan your logic seems to be flawed, I get gps on google maps in the no no no. Google maps is fine, always. It subscribes to updates. This is about things that do *not* subscribe to updates, things that just want to know where you are. For example https:/

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-15 Thread Dave Morley
On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 13:43:32 +0100 Alan Bell wrote: > On 15/07/16 13:00, Tomas Öqvist wrote: > >> > > How much of the location problem is actually software related? I > > used a Bq Aquaris E4.5 for over a year and I agree that the > > location service was useless 99% of the time. I am now using

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-15 Thread Sam Bull
On Fri, 2016-07-15 at 14:00 +0200, Tomas Öqvist wrote: >  How much of the location problem is actually software related? I > used a Bq Aquaris E4.5 for over a year and I agree that the location > service was useless 99% of the time. I am now using a Pro 5, and the > location service on this phone i

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-15 Thread Alan Bell
On 15/07/16 13:38, Sam Bull wrote: Agreed, the location service works great for me under uNav. But, for the Weather app, it requests a location and gets an ancient cached location. If I restart the app a few minutes later, it seems to update to the correct location. So, it seems to me, that the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-15 Thread Alan Bell
On 15/07/16 13:00, Tomas Öqvist wrote: How much of the location problem is actually software related? I used a Bq Aquaris E4.5 for over a year and I agree that the location service was useless 99% of the time. I am now using a Pro 5, and the location service on this phone is working much be

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-15 Thread Sam Bull
On Fri, 2016-07-15 at 10:55 +0100, Alan Bell wrote: > getCurrentPosition does have an option to specify a max age and > request high accuracy  > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/PositionOptions but > I am not sure that we respect those options or just disregard them > and hand out j

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-15 Thread Alan Bell
On 15/07/16 10:41, Sam Bull wrote: On Thu, 2016-07-14 at 15:13 +0100, Alan Bell wrote: and the utterly broken location services https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/location-service/+bug/15546 04 the only way to get a location is to use a moving dot map application and wait and wait for a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-15 Thread Sam Bull
On Thu, 2016-07-14 at 15:13 +0100, Alan Bell wrote: > and the utterly broken location services > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/location-service/+bug/15546 > 04 > > the only way to get a location is to use a moving dot map > application  > and wait and wait for a fix, then you can go to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-14 Thread Alan Bell
I have the production BQ 4.5 phone, with the inverted selfie camera, hopefully fixed in OTA12 https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1567542 and the utterly broken location services https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1567542 https://bugs.launc

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-14 Thread Rodney Dawes
ALL of these things were working pretty much fine for me the last time I tried to use them, on my Nexus 5 with Ubuntu. On Thu, 2016-07-14 at 13:21 +0100, Alan Bell wrote: > presumably Pokemon Go isn't going to do much catching on Ubuntu > Touch? > If location services ever becomes functional and

[Ubuntu-phone] Pokemon Go

2016-07-14 Thread Alan Bell
presumably Pokemon Go isn't going to do much catching on Ubuntu Touch? If location services ever becomes functional and starts handing out current location data rather than where you were last week, and the cameras are the right way up it appears that a standards based web application could be