Has anyone experience of GPS on iPhone?

[Ralph DiMola]

Graham,

Try a GPS status app from the iStore. If you are inside or have RFI the device will fall back to cellular/WIFI location data. If a GPS status app also shows poor accuracy this could be your problem.

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net


-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 11:37 AM
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Cc: Graham Samuel
Subject: Re: Has anyone experience of GPS on iPhone?

Thanks Ralph. To answer your questions:

1. I left the mobileStartTrackingSensor to the default second parameter, i.e. I didn’t put anything. The LC dictionary says that the default value is false which means

> readings are determined using accurate (but power consuming) sources such as GPS

of course I could put in “false” explicitly. But looking at the actual output data from the GPS functions, I think it’s evident that the GPS is actually being used. Nevertheless I will try including “false”.

2.  Yes, I do require GPS as well as Location Services

So, those bits seem OK.

Still thinking about it, obviously.

Graham

> On 4 May 2020, at 16:22, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> 1) Did you set the second parameter of mobileStartTrackingSensor to "false"?
> 2) Did you require "GPS" as well as "Location Services" in the standalone settings? If you don’t tick GPS then the GPS chip will not be used and you will get rough location readings.
> 
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Graham Samuel via use-livecode
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2020 8:07 AM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Cc: Graham Samuel
> Subject: Has anyone experience of GPS on iPhone?
> 
> I’m using GPS on iPhone using the various commands and functions available in LC. Most of this works, but I am having difficulty with the quantity “horizontal accuracy”. This can be queried via an array which is returned when mobileCurrentLocation() is executed. 
> 
> Looking at other iOS apps that use GPS and allow one to examine their data, I find that in my part of the world, accuracy for them is of the order of 5 metres: but when I query it using LC I get much higher numbers, indeed some of them look like nonsense, being hundreds of metres!
> 
> I am aware that it takes time for a GPS signal to settle down after mobileStartTrackingSensor “location” has been called, but even if I script the examination of accuracy to wait for it to settle down (I look for a run of similar or identical readings against a ‘reasonable’ criterion, such as 5 metres), it still sometimes settles on very large numbers comparatively speaking, for example it might stabilise at 65 metres. With that level of inaccuracy any cumulative use, as in working out the number of kilometres in a trip, would not be reliable.
> 
> I wonder if my expectation is wrong, or if there is something different about LC’s encapsulation of these iOS outputs, or if there is some other explanation.
> 
> In the short term, I’m simply going to have to relax my search for a reasonable accuracy of the order of 5 metres, and just go for the first run of stable readings. But I would love to hear any further insight from anyone who’s already tried it.
> 
> Graham
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