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[Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Alan, that's really helpful!

Thomas

On Jul 15, 2016 4:26 PM, "Alan Bell" <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> On 15/07/16 14:51, Thomas Voß wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 15/07/16 14:02, Dave Morley wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alan your logic seems to be flawed, I get gps on google maps in the
>>>>
>>> no no no. Google maps is fine, always. It subscribes to updates. This is
>>> about things that do *not* subscribe to updates, things that just want to
>>> know where you are.
>>> For example
>>> https://www.where-am-i.net/
>>> and a ton of sites that just want to know where you are for things like
>>> this
>>> https://www.aldi.co.uk/store-finder
>>> they are not doing navigation, they are not presenting you on a map as a
>>> moving dot. They just want a single latlng and then they are done, but
>>> location services hands out junk, and doesn't wake up the GPS so you can
>>> refresh forever and nothing will update, and there is no indication that
>>> your GPS is still fast asleep. You have to go to google maps, wait for
>>> it to
>>> get a dot at your location, then go back to your location aware thing and
>>> refresh to let it know where you actually are.
>>>
>>> Just file a bug against both location-service and oxide. The issue is
>> easily fixable by oxide actually considering
>> the time parameter correctly and filtering incoming updates correctly.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>    Thomas
>>
>> I will pop together a test page with some javascript that calls
> getposition with various parameters, see if I can narrow down what doesn't
> work and if I can figure out if there are any options in getCurrentPosition
> that work and I will file a bug on that. It is basically set out in this
> bug:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/+bug/1551686
>
> Alan.
>
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