And giving them some context to place themselves, even if GeoIP and way off, is better than no context all, as Garvan suggested.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Garvan Keeley" <[email protected]> To: "Chris Peterson" <[email protected]> Cc: "gervase Markham" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 1:59:21 PM Subject: Re: Add a "Where are you?" UI for Firefox OS devices without GPS? drag the pin to correct your location. Any act of tap or drag would make that pin the active one. On Jul 16, 2014, at 4:33 PM, Chris Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > Because MLS coverage is spotty in some regions and some Firefox OS devices > are shipping without GPS, Gerv suggested that we add UI so Firefox OS users > can set their location on a map. A device could build its own stumbling > database of Wi-Fi and cell data with user-defined position data. > > This is a very interesting idea because it replaces the poor MLS results with > precise locations. We could submit this data back to MLS, too, but that is a > secondary goal. > > However, the UX would be tricky. If a user picks the wrong location, how do > they correct it? Do we ask the user every time to pick their location, but > initialize the map with the best guess (either MLS/GeoIP the first time and > then the user-defined location thereafter)? If the user picks the same > location three times in a row, maybe we can assume that answer is correct. > > > chris > _______________________________________________ > dev-geolocation mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation
