On Tuesday 29 June 2010 20:17:19 Tim Morley wrote: > On 29 Jun 2010, at 19:06000, 'Dragon' Dave McKee wrote: > > I assume the GPS will > > successfully work in a bus in the same way a car's does? > > A GPS in a car has its sensor stuck inside the windscreen, pointing at the > sky. An iPhone in a bus passenger's pocket... doesn't. > > But that to me isn't the biggest problem. Turning on the GPS on either an > iPhone or an Android handset is the fastest way to guarantee that you'll > be staring out of the windows on the way home, because your battery will > be flat. Even when I need to use the GPS for my own benefit, I try to keep > the sessions as short as possible so that there's a chance my battery will > last through the day. The idea of installing an app that I just leave > running in case I get on a bus that's constantly accessing the GPS > receiver is just a non-starter to me. > > And if I'm meant to launch the application every time I get on the bus... > why not just send a text/geolocated tweet instead? The infrastructure's > already there, and it's much kinder to my battery. > > > Tim >
This is correct. Also, if people decide to log their bus journey the day after they have a bad one, that's good. Reversion to the mean, baby! And if that bus route is always crappy, well, that's rather the point. -- The only thing worse than e-mail disclaimers...is people who send e-mail to lists complaining about them
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