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[Felipe De La Puente <fdelapuente@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I totally agree, ubuntu should be using an AGPS based on open databases.
However I think it's not the case.

In any case, such an implementation needs to be at location-service level,
not app level. I haven't had time to check how complex it would be to try
to implement that from scratch and make location service use this AGPS
service instead of the one being used right now.

By the way, I just got notified that the bug related to usage of cell
towers for AGPS has changed status to "in-progress" which sounds great!

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1500039

Best Regards,
Felipe.

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Mattias <mattias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does someone know if there is already software that makes you get a faster
> location fix using cell tower information? I noticed that a-gps works quite
> well in the city area but not in the country side.  There are already a few
> open source projects (for android) that do this, but I am wondering if it
> is or there are plans to integrate this in ubuntu touch. There are open
> source databases with an api like http://opencellid.org and
> https://location.services.mozilla.com/. For android there is UnifiedNlp
> and with a backend: https://github.com/n76/Local-GSM-Backend. Would be
> great to have something like that for Ubuntu. But I am not sure how
> difficult it is to integrate this with the location-service dbus. Love to
> hear your opinions on this.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Mattias
>
>
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