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> The data from the GPS is not converted into a useful position in latitude and longitude until it has been processed in our cloud service. That doesn't sound
by pcl 14y ago
> The data from the GPS is not converted into a useful position in latitude and longitude until it has been processed in our cloud service.
That doesn't sound right. Clearly, the GPS data must include latitude and longitude data. I wonder if they're doing some sort of encryption of the data, or if it's just an encoding issue or something.
EDIT: just read the answer after submitting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5010057 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5010057. That's a neat approach! Sounds like it'd be straightforward to do the same thing that their cloud service does in a non-cloud process.
- hayksaakian 14y agoGPS data is just a series of timestamps from multiple satellites simultaneously. Making that into lat long is a typical use case, but not inherent to GPS data.