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[Felipe De La Puente <fdelapuente@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I think I didn't get Alan's message clearly, but makes me think that this
dummy position given by the location service as the first update should
carry a flag saying "take it with a grain of salt, this is the last I
checked" which in the Qt context could be achieved setting the
QGeoPositionInfo.valid = false.

In my opinion, you either wait until having a valid location, or give this
dummy data flagging it as invalid explicitly, but giving it as an update
without advicing that it's unreliable doesn't look like a good idea,
especially because it has an accuracy associated which is no longer
guaranteed.

Best Regards,
Felipe.

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
>>
>>
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