Support for the Mozilla Location Service is available in trunk builds I believe, and we will start using it in production devices soon as well.
Thanks, Andreas On Mar 24, 2014, at 12:16 PM, Adrian Custer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/24/14, 8:45 AM, Marek Raida wrote: >> Hello, could someone tell me please, if hybrid Wifi/aGPS positioning >> should work in FFOS 1.3? Accordingly to >> https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Roadmap it was added to 1.2 (but >> strangely without any issue reference). I've spent a week running >> around town with Android device with mozStumbler turned on and >> acquired a lot of data (https://location.services.mozilla.com/leaders >> - user revelon ;-) , but still, getting position outside is painfully >> painfully slow, and inside of building nearly impossible (on device >> GP Revolution). Thank you for an answer/status, Marek >> _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list >> [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g >> > Hey Marek, > > Glad you were productive stumbling. > > As I understand things, none of your data are exposed to the Firefox OS > Geolocation call. The Firefox OS navigator.geolocation call works but still > relies on the service of a third party (some Google service if I remember > right). This means you won't see your data that way. However, the call should > work on your phone, so I am not sure why it does not. > Perhaps, that service does not have coverage of your area? > > > Mozilla Location Services, which gets the Stumbler data, is not used for > Firefox OS Geolocation. MozLocServ is still in data acquisition mode > (although you can manually call the service to ask for its estimate of > your position, but that has fixed and very poor error estimates). You > can ask questions about MozLocSev on another list: > > [email protected] > > where you might get more precise answers about how your uploaded data > are being processed and used. > > cheers, > ~adrian > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
