On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 08:41 +0300, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > On 09/30/2010 06:00 PM, Andrew Flegg wrote: > >> Nothing stops a QGeoPositionInfoSource from caching the result internally, > >> (as opposed to a ::setLastKnownPosition()). > > > > Indeed, but this isn't the use case Alberto's described (BICBW). > > Exactly. My use case is when the last known position is wrong (another > country, > for instance). The typical case is when you travel abroad: you don't want to > use > network-based positioning (either unavailable, or too expensive), and you > know > your approximate location. > I plan to introduce this feature in Mappero for maemo5 -- but still need to > check whether it helps at all :-) >
I think GeoClue could help on this matter, since its implements a Manual provider which end user could use to set the location and address manually. There is still no full implementation of an assisting GPS mechanism, but it could be a good starting point. -- Javier Fernández García-Boente http://blogs.igalia.com/jfernandez/ www.igalia.com
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