I believe the problem with GPS is not one of configuration, it is one of licensing. The carriers have a license to use commercial AGPS and SUPL servers, but devices that are not shipped by a carrier do not have a license to use one.
If our intent with the mozstumbler is to provide these services for free and we are running servers, we should configure the open source repository to use our servers, but I don't know enough about that project to know whether that is the intent. Please correct me if I am wrong about any of this. I would love to be wrong. As far as I know, that is the current situation. I do think investing in a Mozilla Maps project would be highly valuable. However, getting a useful map product is probably extremely difficult, as the Apple Maps project showed to the world. Donovan On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Dale Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here maps isnt installed by default on the user builds any more, however a > lot of people, possibly using old builds or installing it themselves > specifically mentioned that here maps wasnt good enough, particularly in > relation to offline support. I am not sure many people realised here > supports offline at all, however its behind a nokia login and fairly > limited. > > The other part of this that was commonly called out was the GPS > reliability, people complained about not being able to get a fix, it was > unreliable or slow > > Fixing GPS obviously needs to be one of the highest priorities, I know its > hard problem due to the interaction with the vendor however we cant be > handwavey 'its a build issue' any more, if someone on the v188 with the > latest gecko is not getting a fast GPS fix we need to know why, I walked > around my area with mozstumbler specifically in the hope that it was a lack > of agps coverage that was causing the slow fix, but it is still to slow to > count on it existing at all, there are also an indication that there are > gecko level breakages (one application has a fix, another doesnt, restart a > map after having a fix and it will no longer have one) > > Also I do believe investing in a Mozilla Maps project would be highly > valuable, I dont think any other company is going to invest in improving > their web capable map applications to make them anywhere near competitive > or as usable as the native equivalents and maps are too staple a smartphone > feature to have a large gap in functionality. > > On 16 December 2014 at 04:09, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Dale Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Most people commented on the lack of specific apps. The lack of good >> GPS / >> > maps / navigation was by far the most commented on lack of >> functionality / >> > apps, then there were some common suspects, the most popular of these >> being >> > WhatsApp, DropBox, Spotify, Google Hangouts, Skype, Instagram >> >> Do we not have Here Maps installed on our dogfooding devices? I know >> that the builds I've been dogfooding with hasn't had it, but for some >> reason I was under the impression that the dogfooding builds we've >> been using more broadly has had it? >> >> Or is the problem that Here Maps isn't good enough? >> >> / Jonas >> > > _______________________________________________ > dev-gaia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-gaia > >
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