The challenge with any Firefox OS stumbler is that the geolocation
WebAPI does not provide a way for the developer to restrict or query
specific location sources. Android's API allows the developer request
only GPS results.
Some Firefox OS devices have GPS hardware and Wi-Fi/cell-based location
service provided by Qualcomm. We only want to report "clean" GPS data;
we don't want to inadvertently upload position data derived from
Qualcomm's or Google's databases. Other Firefox OS devices have no GPS
hardware or use MLS, which could cause strange feedback problems where
MLS is calculating future position results based on its own past estimates.
We could extend Gecko's geolocation WebAPI with moz-prefixed extensions,
but I don't think anyone wants that. Another idea was to change Gecko's
implementation so the API's PositionOptions.enableHighAccuracy flag
would exclude non-GPS results, but that would introduce new problems
when GPS is not available. Currently, Gecko doesn't treat
PositionOptions.enableHighAccuracy results any differently.
chris
On 10/29/14 10:37 AM, Ashickur Rahman wrote:
Hi Asa
Some of our community (Mozilla Bangladesh) members are using FxStumbler [1]
on there Peak and Keon, I hope those who have or will have flame they can
also use this app. But this app is quite old, but it serves the basic
purpose.
[1] https://github.com/clochix/FxStumbler
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On 29 October 2014 23:24, Asa Dotzler <[email protected]> wrote:
We have about 5,000 Flames in the wild and that will grow by a couple
thousand more in the next month or two. It's got a GPS chip in it. It's
got a well aligned user base. Can we give them a stumbler app for helping
the geolocation services effort?
- A
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