Hello Jack, my problem is different. I'm using just a laptop for my tests.
When I'm at home my position is accurate with iGoogle Latitude gadget and Geolocation API. Today I'm in another city. iGoogle Latitude Gadget is accurate, Geolocation API report me to be in downtown with accuracy = 25000. I'm wondering why there are such differences? Why I get such differences between difference between iGoogle Latitude Gadget and Geolocation API in the second location, and everything is fine in the first location? Any clue? Thank Andrè On 9 Feb, 21:58, Jack Chadowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Andre' > > Your problem may be similar to mine. > > I use google maps on my AT&T tilt. Accuracy is 2400m unless I ask it to use > the GPS, the I get 30' accuracy. > > With gears, I get about 2000m accuracy as its using the cell towers which > are realy sparse where I am. > > In your case I believe that gears is using the cell towers and the > difference in accuracy is your location relative to the towers. > > So a solution may be to use a GPS > > I can't get gears to use the GPS. > > Information on that is in a separate posting. > > Jack > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Andrè <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > I found some difference between the two on topic and I act just > > surprised because I didn't read it anywhere. > > > Let's skip maps and latitude on Cell Phones by now. Let's focus on my > > laptop. > > > I added Latitude to my iGoogle and it's working very good, without any > > GPS. I then created a facebook app that use google gears ( > >http://apps.facebook.com/locate_me) but it just seems to be > > inaccurate. > > > Here's two example: > > - yesterday I was @ home. Google Latitude and Geolocation showed the > > same exact location, that was good. > > - today I'm on a biz mission. Latitude displays my location with good > > accuracy, while geolocation on gears shows results with accuracy of > > 25000. > > > Is there anything I can do to obtain better results using gears > > geolocation api? > > > Thank you! > > Andrè
