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> the unintuitive part is that “location” means “Wi-Fi scan” I was under the impression that this has been SOP for mobile device location forever: get rough lo
by culturestate 4y ago
> the unintuitive part is that “location” means “Wi-Fi scan”
I was under the impression that this has been SOP for mobile device location forever: get rough location via WiFi and/or tower multilateration while GPS is...I don't know the proper terminology here, bootstrapping? That's why your dot tends to start somewhere nearby-ish and then quicky jump to your exact location.
It's possible that I'm way off base or my understanding is outdated, though.
- lillecarl 4y agoI'm thinking that my devices could have an offline list of known WiFi mac-addresses from when it's checked GPS before and return those for very accurate results without scanning anything.
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- Gigachad 4y ago> I don't know the proper terminology here, bootstrapping? There is the term "Time to first fix" Maybe "getting first fix" could be derived from that. Wikipedia lists a set of interesting situations with what the device is actually doing that causes the delay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_first_fix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_first_fix