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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I thought the HERE maps thing did that?
It really isn't a good idea for the Ubuntu handsets to contribute to any 
such effort while location services is still so reluctant to allow the 
GPS chip to turn on and do it's job. Right now my phone thinks I am 
about half a mile away from where I am, I can request the location as 
much as I like by refreshing https://www.where-am-i.net/ and location 
services will fail to do *anything* about it unless I launch something 
like unav or go to google maps in the browser, something that 
*subscribes to updates*. If you don't launch a moving dot maps 
application and wait then it will only ever serve up the coordinates of 
where you happen to have been some point over the last few days and 
leaves the GPS turned off. This means that the geotagged information 
from the camera, location aware websites, lenses that show local stuff 
and so on, just don't work very well at all.
There are bugs filed relating to these issues, and they have been looked 
at, just not fixed in OTA11.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/location-service/+bug/1551686
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/location-service/+bug/1551683


Alan.

On 08/06/16 20:52, Mattias 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