On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Kristopher Micinski <[email protected]> wrote: > True, I was working off the map activity assumption. The IP based > lookup approach isn't fundamentally wrong, a good portion of the time > you'll be "pretty much right" for the purposes of many applications > (location specific ad targeting, etc..). But if you have finer > location why not use it? >
Presumably because it requires additional permissions? BTW, that's exactly how the browser location API works: if you are running on a device with GPS, etc. and you grant it permission, it will use that, fallback to IP otherwise (on a desktop machine, etc.). The page above when opened in Chrome on my GN gets my pretty much exact location, Chrome on my computer puts me in a completely different part of town (15km away :). -- 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
