This bug was fixed in the package location-service -
3.0.0+16.10.20160811-0ubuntu1
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location-service (3.0.0+16.10.20160811-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium
[ Alberto Mardegan ]
* Don't sent last known position to new sessions (LP: #1604446)
[ Scott Sweeny ]
* Enable running location-service on Snappy Ubuntu Core
[ Thomas Voß ]
* Make sure that we are not racing with the timeout handler.
-- Thomas Voß Thu, 11 Aug 2016 08:27:10
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** Changed in: location-service (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1604446
Title:
getcurrentPosition in oxide does not cause a wake up of the GPS
Status in Canonical System Image:
Fix Committed
Status in Oxide:
New
Status in webapps-sprint:
New
Status in location-service package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
A browser based application that wants to use position can call
getCurrentPosition
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/getCurrentPosition
or watchPosition
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation/watchPosition
maps (such as google maps) and navigation applications will typically use
watchPosition which will cause location services to turn on the GPS chip and
get a new location for the device.
non-map applications that just want location aware context for things such as
weather or local stores e.g. https://www.aldi.co.uk/store-finder do not
subscribe to updates with watchPosition. They just call getCurrentPosition and
expect a decent enough position to use.
Ubuntu Touch returns the last known position from the cache when
getCurrentPosition is called, and then fails to turn on the GPS. It
should block until it has a decent position and return good data to
the success callback. It certainly shouldn't return a bad position and
then fail to make an effort to get a good position.
The result of this bug is that you can go to a location aware web
page, it will think you are somewhere else entirely, and refreshing
will not improve the situation, you have to open a mapping application
that uses watchPosition and wait for a fix to be obtained before going
back to your location aware web page and refreshing to get good data.
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