Hello, surfing on the EGNOS website (the European service augmenting for free GPS signal) I found out that the European Commission has released an open-source SDK for Android. Thanks to the SDK smartphone app developers can exploit EGNOS features: increased accuracy and reliability of the position. The SDK is downloadable for free at:
http://www.egnos-portal.eu/developer-platform/egnos-toolkits Besides the SDK, all the necessary information is available on the website, including a Demo App, HowTos, Videos.. Higher GPS position accuracy and reliability (they call this feature ""integrity"") seem to be nice opportunities to develop innovative apps. Unfortunately, at the moment an external receiver is required! >From what I see, this depends on the fact that the EGNOS SDK needs to access ""pure"" GPS information, as it is sent by the satellites and received by the GPS chip, and this information is not made available to and by the OS. GPS data are elaborated and then sent out only in the form of spatial coordinates. It looks like that, in order to benefit from the EGNOS advantages, Google should integrate this SDK into its OS... Do you think we will see that? I hope so! Best, Matteo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
