On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Alan Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > so, today I cycled a mile to the office, walked around town for an hour, it > is now 4PM and I go to a page I know uses location services, > https://www.aldi.co.uk/storelocator/ it asks to allow location, I allow it, > and it pins me at home, where I was 8 hours ago. Is this expected behavior > of the caching? I suspect part of the annoyance is that some web things that > want a geolocation only ask for it once, they are not tracking your movement > they just want to know where you are to display stuff around you. For that > kind of request flinging a very stale cached location at them isn't helpful > because they won't update if a better fix comes available, better to block > the request while making an effort to figure out the position.
That's the fine-tuning I was talking about earlier :) And no, the behavior you are observing is not expected but a bug. I will come back later with the respective bug number. > When I have location services enabled I kind of expect it to check for a fix > every so often, not just when I open maps and wait 5 minutes. > Now that is quite difficult, waking up the device from deep sleep just to maintain a cache is *very* expensive in terms of battery, specifically as choosing a sensible timeout is almost impossible. Thomas > Alan. > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
