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[Wayne Ward <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It was working quite well last week but not so good this week
It would be just good to have the feature of tracking or wiping our 
phones if lost.
I know its a bit stupid if you leave your phone at some random location 
but accidents do happen
so being able to track it back to were you was last can be very handy
i managed to get the node working and pushing back location fine 
although its not a perfect way of doing this i was going to get them to 
look more at using the mobile location and adding push into the node 
which the developer said this could be done.
so if i can get them features to improve then get pushed into a click it 
could be quite handy for people who may worry about loosing there 
expensive devices
im just used to being able to track my phone with being a previous 
iphone / android user is like comes built in - so its a luxury i guess?....

Wayne

On 29/02/16 11:38, Alan Bell 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. 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.
>
> Alan.
>
> On 28/02/16 20:44, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > El día Sunday, February 28, 2016 a las 08:36:13PM +0000, Wayne Ward 
> > escribió:
> >
> > > Try installing prey from my read me its early days but tracks
> > >
> > > Wayne
> > I do not think that it is a good idea that some kind of "service" or
> > "secret service" tracks the location of your mobile device and you.
> >
> >     matthias