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The article asks why they don’t just use grid snapping only. If you lived on a boundary it would be very clear because your location would change very often, p
by randyrand 6y ago
The article asks why they don’t just use grid snapping only.
If you lived on a boundary it would be very clear because your location would change very often, perhaps just by walking to the kitchen.
- ape4 6y agoIt could use neighborhood. Use GPS to locate your neighborhood then give your location as the townhall or central park or whatever in that area.
- tharkun__ 6y agoChanging what you use as the boundary doesn't change the fact that if you're close enough to the actual boundary, you will jump a lot. So you have to go quite large with the boundary for it to limit the pinpointing. Having larger areas within your boundaries makes the feature much less 'useful' though. Which granularity: Harlem/Hell's Kitchen etc? West Harlem/East Harlem etc? Manhattan/Long Island? New York/New Jersey etc.? Feature wise you would probably want at least something like Harlem/Hell's kitchen granularity and there are unfortunately enough people living on the borders of all of these that you could pinpoint those just from GPS inaccuracies.
- shawnz 6y agoPerhaps you could add some sort of hysteresis such that it continues to report you as being in the previous grid square unless you go >1/2 a grid square distance away from it