Welcome wizard claims GPS is less accurate than wifi based location
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu UX |
Invalid
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Low
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Andreea Pirvu | ||
ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
unity8 (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
First boot welcome wizard in location sections claims GPS is less accurate than network based location service from HERE.
While this can be theoretically true in some insane corner case, in normal life GPS is far more accurate.
To help form correct text here are main differences.
GPS - more accurate, but slow to acquire fix, does not work indoors, drains battery more, no need for internet connection, does not send any data out.
Network based location - almost instant to get coarse location, works indoors, accuracy depends on network coverage in the area, more power efficient, requires internet connection. To get location data about visible GSM network and wifi networks needs to be send to 3rd party server.
tested on krillin vivid-proposed r107
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Michael Terry (mterry) |
Changed in ubuntu-ux: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
assignee: | nobody → Olga Kemmet (olga-kemmet) |
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Michael Terry (mterry) → nobody |
Changed in ubuntu-ux: | |
assignee: | Olga Kemmet (olga-kemmet) → Andreea Pirvu (andreea-pirvu) |
Changed in ubuntu-ux: | |
status: | Triaged → Invalid |
no longer affects: | canonical-devices-system-image |
When the Here service is enabled we also use GPS so the users choice is not Here or GPS. The message should be somehow that using Here gives a better experience.
But agreed that "Use GPS Only" should drop the "(less accurate)"