Hey all,
Just thought I'd give you my two cents about the new geolocation feature in 1.1.3. I upgraded last night and tried it out in my place in Camden Town and it worked 5 times out of 6 and failed one time. By fail I mean that instead of showing my street accurate to about 200m it showed me a map of the whole of greater london and said "you are somewhere in here"
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The acid test however was this morning on the bus into university, even whilst moving at 30mph through a busy street with a lot of electromagnetic occlusions it still managed to give me a 100m accurate signal 70-80% of the time. This is *really* impressive, as an engineer I can appreciate the problems with doppler shift and the bus itself is like a semi-faraday cage shielding the signal and causing all sorts of artifacts.
So in conclusion bravo Apple/Google, my iPhone is now well worth the money I paid for it....
Chris
Just thought I'd give you my two cents about the new geolocation feature in 1.1.3. I upgraded last night and tried it out in my place in Camden Town and it worked 5 times out of 6 and failed one time. By fail I mean that instead of showing my street accurate to about 200m it showed me a map of the whole of greater london and said "you are somewhere in here"
.The acid test however was this morning on the bus into university, even whilst moving at 30mph through a busy street with a lot of electromagnetic occlusions it still managed to give me a 100m accurate signal 70-80% of the time. This is *really* impressive, as an engineer I can appreciate the problems with doppler shift and the bus itself is like a semi-faraday cage shielding the signal and causing all sorts of artifacts.
So in conclusion bravo Apple/Google, my iPhone is now well worth the money I paid for it....
Chris