Map starts up at South Pole

[Kieran Fleming]

Should start at the last known location but maybe it's taking too long to find it?

[chris_debian (cjhandrew)]

I don't know anything about coding, but could we have a variable that store's the last known location, this would then be checked at start-up? I'm guessing with all the routing/ location stuff that happens already, this variable exists.

Alternatively, the user could always specify a 'home' location, but this is probably needlessly complicated for a small win and has security/ privacy issues, I think. Additionally, if the user travels a lot, then 'Home' could be as useless as displaying the South Pole.

Chris.

[Guillaume Rosaire (zerog)]

The lastKnownLocation was already working as expected before revison r89

This refactor seems to have changed the initialisation of the localisation service. I added a line that seems to have fixed the issue, see rev r114

[chris_debian (cjhandrew)]

ZeroG wrote:
> The lastKnownLocation was already working as expected before revison r89
>
> This refactor seems to have changed the initialisation of the localisation service. I added a line that seems to have fixed the issue, see rev r114

Brilliant, I look forward to tomorrow's download.

Chris.

[Murphy (murphy2712+launchpad)]

It works for me, good job :)

[chris_debian (cjhandrew)]

Murphy wrote:
> It works for me, good job :)

If I start OSN with GPS disabled, I get prompted to turn it on. I do this. If satellit not acquired, I get the prompt again. I now select 'Use wireless networks'. The usual 'Ok to share location with Google (my words)'? Prompt cannot be seen, so location service is not enabled. OSN then displays South Pole location.

Chris.

[Guillaume Rosaire (zerog)]

chris_debian wrote:
> Murphy wrote:
> > It works for me, good job :)
>
> If I start OSN with GPS disabled, I get prompted to turn it on. I do this. If satellit not acquired, I get the prompt again. I now select 'Use wireless networks'. The usual 'Ok to share location with Google (my words)'? Prompt cannot be seen, so location service is not enabled. OSN then displays South Pole location.
>
> Chris.

Well, OSN querys android to know the last acquired location (either with network or GPS), as you didn't have any, it cannot do anything else than fail and show you the south pole as it did before. I don't think we could do anything better than that. Maybe initialize the location to longitude 0 (Greenwich) and lat 0 (equator) ? Or EuroDisney or Buckingham Palace, the Eiffel Tower, Sydney's Opera, that won't be easy to decide :)

[chris_debian (cjhandrew)]

ZeroG wrote:
> chris_debian wrote:
> > Murphy wrote:
> > > It works for me, good job :)
> >
> > If I start OSN with GPS disabled, I get prompted to turn it on. I do this. If satellit not acquired, I get the prompt again. I now select 'Use wireless networks'. The usual 'Ok to share location with Google (my words)'? Prompt cannot be seen, so location service is not enabled. OSN then displays South Pole location.
> >
> > Chris.
>
>
> Well, OSN querys android to know the last acquired location (either with network or GPS), as you didn't have any, it cannot do anything else than fail and show you the south pole as it did before. I don't think we could do anything better than that. Maybe initialize the location to longitude 0 (Greenwich) and lat 0 (equator) ? Or EuroDisney or Buckingham Palace, the Eiffel Tower, Sydney's Opera, that won't be easy to decide :)

Fair point! It works well when I turn location services on before starting OSN. Happy to close, now.

Excellent job done!

Chris