The Javadoc says horizontal accuracy, as EGO says; I dunno why I missed that before. But it's consistent with my observations.
But you're dependent on the GPS implementation in the device, and how they implement and report the accuracy computation may vary. If you REALLY care, I'd suggest testing. In any event, the accuracy value reported will be a statistical value. It is NOT guaranteed to be within that value; just probably within that value. At any point in time, there's a probability distribution for your position, depending on the number of satellites visible, their positions, and the signal/noise ratio for each. The number corresponds to the size of circle that it estimates a probability (95% would be my guess) that you are inside that circle. On Mar 5, 3:38 am, MaHaJaN <[email protected]> wrote: > @ Frank and Bob > > What you are saying is that an android application developer has no > idea which type of accuracy value he is getting from the device and he > need to compare the values to determine the accuracy type. > > On Mar 5, 4:32 pm, MaHaJaN <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I am not sure whether its horizontal or not so asked the above > > question. > > > public float getAccuracy () > > Returns theaccuracyof the fix in meters. If hasAccuracy() > > is false, 0.0 is returned. > > >http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/Location.html... > > > On Mar 3, 7:14 pm, EGO <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > getAccuracy() > > > Returns a constant describing horizontalaccuracyof this provider. > > > > According > > > tohttp://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/LocationProvi... > > > > On Feb 15, 2:04 am, MaHaJaN <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi , > > > > > I wanted to know that theaccuracyvalue returned by the getAccuracy() > > > > is of which type radialaccuracyor horizontalaccuracy. > > > > > -regards > > > > Rajat -- 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
