05-18-2021, 10:29 AM
(05-16-2021, 06:44 PM)steves Wrote: I also find it interesting that if I'm not connected to wifi, location services think I'm in a river in Chicago. Not sure if this is the location services not being able to use the gps yet or a hardware issue.I don't think any of the distros have integrated use of assistance data for GPS, and without it getting a fix can be difficult as it needs a strong uninterrupted signal to get the initial fix. Without it geoclue tries other methods like geoip, cell tower ID and WiFi SSID lookup - I've not looked into the details and don't know what the fallback might be if it's got no network connection. With a previous ISP the geoip lookups would often put me in a different city, or in another country the ISP operated in. We really need a good bit of usability/configurability/privacy design for this!