Hi Thomas, On 29 February 2016 at 15:35, Thomas Voß <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Alan Bell <[email protected]> wrote: >> it isn't really about that, it is about providing less broken location data >> to applications that ask for it. The current situation is that if an >> application requests location data it gets given random coordinates of >> somewhere you may have been to in the last week or so. > > Hmmm, I'm surprised by that statement. The service hands out the last > known good location, together with a timestamp > and the accuracy aged out. If applications fail to handle the > respective data correctly, it is not the service at fault here. >
I spent a week in Germany last week. At lunch time we wandered outside from the exhibition centre and opened HERE maps to find a nearby kebab shop (don't ask). Ogra pulled out his MX4 running rc-proposed and used HERE to find a local shop and navigate to it. Our destination seemed a ludicrous distance away from our current location, until we noticed the current location on the map was actually the hotel we left some 5 hours previously. Cue a few moments of stabbing to refresh the app to make it realise we've moved (quite a bit as it happened). While this may be "Working As Designed", it's not "Working in a meaningfully useful way". Having a location which is "aged" by over half a working day is pretty useless on a mobile device. Other platforms don't do this (in my experience), neither should we, battery life be dammed, frankly. I want the map to show me where I am now, not where I ate breakfast sometime in the past. >> Then it thinks about >> refreshing the location and refining it over the next few minutes or so if >> the application is one that asks where you are again and again. If it could >> take a peek at the satellites every so often then it would enable several >> additional classes of application and would be less broken for things that >> only ask once. >> > > That's incorrect. The service keeps on delivering updates to > applications that have requested continuous location updates. Then there is a bug in the platform. The browser (in which HERE runs) is a default app and the location service is also pre-installed. There is an issue here which clearly need nailing as I'm certain we're not the only 3 people in the world to experience this. Cheers, -- Alan Pope Community Manager Canonical - Ubuntu Engineering and Services +44 (0) 7973 620 164 [email protected] http://ubuntu.com/ -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
