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[Jonathan Meek <shrouded.cloud@xxxxxxxxx>]

So I'd like to briefly put in my experience: on boot, the nearby scope
shows me stuff from Texas or Kansas (I'm in NC), then I launch uNav get it
to lock on my position which takes some moments, and then go back to
Today/Nearby and refresh them with my actual real location.

This is waaaaaay too tedious for simple location. Oh and this only started
working with OTA11. 10.1 I couldn't get location at all on my m10 after the
first day. Now my guess is that Today/Nearby is polling IP location data
which is highly innaccurate for me. I had intended to use the nearby
feature on my vacation but with 10.1 I couldn't get it to work at all which
was fun. :/

Anyway, I just wanted to point out that while things have gotten better
going from 10 >11, the shell always starts with wrong data even if I tell
the system to use gps only (meaning the shell also seems to not care what
my setting is, it'll do what it wants). And nothing gets accurate location
data until I force it to.

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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