Hi Dwight, I am using Android version.
Let me clarify some points: - You wrote "First check to ensure that your actual location falls somewhere in the nearby circle." As I understand, NearBy circle (transp. grey) is always built around my current location. So, it cannot happen that my current location is not in the NearBy circle. - So, it is enough for NearBy radius and Context (green) radius to cross each other for a task to appear in NearBy view? Because MLO blog says "include". I thought that Context radius is only used to show Location based alerts when my location is within Context radius (or blue circle cross green circle because blue circle represents my possible location) and has nothing to do with NearBy view. - It still does not explain why on the map Location radius and NearBy radius have different length - I set them both to the same 0.1km value in Settings for NearBy and in Location settings for Context. It seems like NearBy radius can change and depends on location precision. I would understand if NearBy radius (grey) was always bigger then location radius (blue) by the distance set it in Settings for NearBy (0.1km in my case), but it changes. Expressing this in numbers I would expect that if location radius is 200m then NearBy should be 200 + 100 = 300m, or location is 1000m and NearBy is 1000 + 100m = 1100m, but on the map it looks like NearBy is 2xLocation: 400m - location -> 800m NearBy (however it should be just 410m). Do you understand what I mean? Can it be reported to developers and asked for clarification? Maybe I incorrectly understand functionality behind this feature. Regards, Alexey >From MLO blog: So to summarize the usage of different radiuses in NearBy functionality: 1. The contexts will be included to NearBy view if context’s radius (a) included to NearBy radius (b). 2. You will get an alert when your location precision radius (c) included to the context radius (a). On Monday, October 12, 2015 at 7:02:33 PM UTC+3, Dwight Arthur wrote: > > Hi, Alexey. I'm guessing that you are using an iphone, right? I don't know > much about iphones and if that's what you are on I'd ask someone else to > help with the explanation. > > On my Android device there are three factors. > 1. The radius defined in "contexts and locations" for each location that > you have set up. This one defines how big the location is. You would set a > smaller value for an urban streetcorner than for a major sports stadium. > > > 2. The radius defined in settings>nearby. This one defines how far from > the target location you can be and still consider it "nearby" > > 3. The third one, I will call location precision. If I am using GPS, the > location the device thinks it is at is within 5 to 15 meters of its actual > location on a good day while outside. When GPS is off to save battery, and > I'm outside the range of wifi transmitters known to Google, and I'm in an > area with low density of cell towers, I have had my device identify a > location as much as 5km from where I am. You should probably set a value > for your nearby radius that is no smaller than your location precision. > > If you look at the map in the nearby view, and if you tap the pin for the > location involved you will see a circle around the pin with a radius set in > #1 above, and a dot for your device's estimate of your current location, > with a circle with radius set in #2 above. First check to ensure that your > actual location falls somewhere in the nearby circle. If so, then check if > the nearby circle and the location circle touch each other. If they do, > then the distance between your device's presumed location and your target > location is less than the target radius plus the nearby radius and the > target is considered nearby. > -Dwight > Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 > > On Oct 12, 2015, Alexey Lyubarets <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> Hi Arthur, >> >> May I also ask you why NearBy widget which is set to radius 0.1 km in >> settings shows a shop which is 0.285 km away from my location according to >> the widget itself? >> >> Thank you, >> Alexey >> >> On Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 5:24:12 AM UTC+3, Dwight Arthur wrote: >>> >>> Hi, Alexey. You have done a great job of documenting a feature called >>> "Location Inheritance" which has been requested by several different users >>> but which the MLO developers have not yet decided to implement. While you >>> wait for them to pick up on the idea, you canachieve what you want a little >>> less conveniently, by entering something along the lines of >>> @Shop1; @Shop2; @Shop3. >>> -Dwight >>> >>> On Friday, October 9, 2015 at 4:47:09 AM UTC-4, Alexey Lyubarets wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi guys, >>>> >>>> I have the following scenario: >>>> >>>> 1. There is a list of purchases I need to make. >>>> 2. I can buy things in any of Shop1, Shop2, Shop3 >>>> 3. I want my purchase list to be shown in Nearby widget if I am in >>>> any of these shops. >>>> >>>> What I expected would work: >>>> >>>> 1. I created three contexts for each shop and setup coordinates for >>>> each of them. Radius 0.2 km. >>>> 2. I created a ShoppingList context where I added my shopping >>>> tasks. I did not setup location for it. >>>> 3. I added my shop-contexts from step 1 as Included contexts to >>>> ShoppingList. >>>> 4. I setup Nearby Radius to be 0.5 k >>>> >>>> So, I expected that whenever I am near by one of the shops ShoppingList >>>> context becomes "active" (as it includes all shops) I can see my entire >>>> shopping list on "NearBy" widget. >>>> >>>> >>>> It does not work in this way. Andy advice on this? >>>> >>>> >>>> Thank you, >>>> >>>> Alexey >>>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MyLifeOrganized" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/60102a31-d050-46c5-a229-0ca0ef153bb8%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/60102a31-d050-46c5-a229-0ca0ef153bb8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -Dwight > Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 > -Dwight > Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 > -Dwight > Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 > -Dwight > Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 > -Dwight > Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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