On my Android phone I can set the GPS on, WiFi off ... in the pull down
settings menu.
This avoids any issues with wifi errors in their location and copyright.
I normally use a dedicated GPS receiver, the phone is a backup and as I
normally use it as a simple phone I turn off both WiFi and GPS for
battery life.
On 09-Oct-16 10:46 PM, Andy Townsend wrote:
Short answer: Probably not.
Longer answer:
There are two bits to this. One is where your phone got its location
from and the other is what you actually added to OSM.
Taking the first bit first, it would depend on where the app got its
location from. If the app said that it uses Play Services if "high
accuracy" is set (in the app), then you've got to assume that is what
it is using. If you're in the middle of nowhere then that location is
going to be based on GPS only. If you're in a town it'll use wifi
hotspots that Google users have seen previously as well. The third
component, cell site location, is unlikely to give you anything more
useful than the other two (when I last looked at the accuracy of that
in town, which was pre 4g, it was more than 500m, so not much use).
The second bit is I would expect dependant on a whole bunch of things
- I use GPS traces, Bing imagery, OS Streetview in addition to my own
recollection of what things actually looked like.
If you were recording a GPS trace in the centre of a town, using
mostly local wifi hotspots for location, and converting that trace to
a way in OSM without engaging brain, then it could be argued that
Google's locations are getting into OSM. As you aren't doing that, I
doubt that it can (notwithstanding that I'm not a lawyer, and I
suspect that a lawyer could argue about anything if necessary).
It does depend on the app of course - I'm writing this on a phone that
runs Android apps but doesn't support Play Services, but that's a
rapidly diminishing segment of the market unless Amazon decides to
head-butt that plate-glass window again or possibly Samsung thinks
they need to break free of Google. It also depends on user input - for
example MAPS.ME does use Google Play Services but does allow user
placement of POIs‎ prior to saving.
*From: *Nick Whitelegg
*Sent: *Sunday, 9 October 2016 12:11
*To: *talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
*Subject: *[Talk-GB] Location: High accuracy mode on android
Hi, just wanted to check something. Unintentionally I had location on
High accuracy mode on android when mapping last week... Annoyingly it
sets it to this each time you turn location on... And the
documentation says it uses Google location services. Will this violate
any copyright? Hope not as it will mean deleting mapping from last
week. Don't think it will but thought I'd best check.
Thanks, Nick
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