On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 17:27, Chris Collett <[email protected]>wrote:

> Have you tried testing it with another service besides gmaps? Just curious,
> it could be Google Maps.


Sure, i thought the same first ... and then i refresh the page two or three
times.
On the first run, it's always a dozen meters away, first refresh too. But
from the second one, it's a couple of inch accurate !

Check by yourself on this previous example.
Strange behavior btw ...

I'll try to do so with a Bing! map and Yahoo! too


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>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:15 AM, StanRB <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I've had the same issue of poor accuracy. I think it is much more
>> accurate on the iPhone 3Gs. Anybody know if there is a way to make the
>> phone use only the GPS and not other means of getting location?
>>
>>
>> This is my first post on this group. I spent some time reading around.
>> I hope I can contribute - I certainly have a lot of questions :)!
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>>
>> On Nov 12, 6:40 am, Remi Grumeau <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Made some test again, and it's a bit more accurate ... but like Ryan
>> says,
>> > it definitely needs an outside clear sky use.
>> > try it herehttp://www.remi-grumeau.com/iphone/geolocalisation_test.php
>> > <http://www.remi-grumeau.com/iphone/geolocalisation_test.php>(simple
>> HTML5
>> > geolocalisation use and put back onto a Google Maps API)
>> >
>> > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 00:36, Ahrjay <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Nov 8, 9:39 am, Daniel Larkin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > > > Do I need to make multiple calls to geolocation perhaps?
>> >
>> > > Depends how you are calling it. Are you watching the position object
>> > > so it fires everytime the gps gets a new location?
>> >
>> > > From the spec "The API itself is agnostic of the underlying location
>> > > information sources." meaning it will work with what it has available.
>> > > On the iPhone it'll use GPS, Cell Tower Triangulation and/or IP
>> > > address. If you results aren't great it may not be using the GPS and
>> > > falling back to one of the other options.
>> >
>> > > I wrote an article and did a demo on using the geolocation api on the
>> > > iPhone.http://www.thecssninja.com/javascript/geolocation-iphone, I
>> > > get very accurate results when using it outside with a clear view of
>> > > the sky.
>> >
>> > > -Ryan
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