when i run google maps or any app that uses the location feature to bring up info for my area, it can never locate my area or city at that. i am in a wifi area so it has internet connectivity. do the 2g itouches not function with the location?
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iPod touch location never works on itouch
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The location services are provided by a third party. Depending on where you live, it may not be mapped yet. Also, if the information of your network has changed since they mapped it, then it won't work. You can submit your current information to SkyHook.
It has nothing to do with your hardware and your warranty will not cover it.
It has nothing to do with your hardware and your warranty will not cover it.
Yes, on the Touch location is a hack that rarely works. I appreciate Apple trying, but with no true GPS or cell chip to triangulate with the odd of all the Wifi Nodes needed being registered is slim to none. Only those in a dense city that Skyhook has done the mapping for "might" work some of the time. The second someone moves or replaces their router it's all screwed up.
Now you know why a GPS chip in the Touch is often requested. Apple knows how to do it (iPhone). IMO it's THE hardware they should include as part of the next Touch. 3.0 software allows access to maps and location within 3rd party apps. The 1st gen touch is left behind by having no bluetooth chip to activate. The 2nd gen will be similarly left behind when the 3rd gen shows up.
Now you know why a GPS chip in the Touch is often requested. Apple knows how to do it (iPhone). IMO it's THE hardware they should include as part of the next Touch. 3.0 software allows access to maps and location within 3rd party apps. The 1st gen touch is left behind by having no bluetooth chip to activate. The 2nd gen will be similarly left behind when the 3rd gen shows up.
Almost always works for me as long as one of the networks is 'open' and I can connect to the internet. The trick is finding an open network. Without one location services are not available, but neither is much else (like map data), so it wouldn't be that useful anyway. But if there is an internet connection, my Touch can determine its location the vast majority of the time. Works a lot better than I would have expected it to.
Totally agree with that statement. Doesn't work at home or at work, works just about everywhere else because the network is open, and the accuracy boggles my mind. Right down to the corner of a building I am in. Makes me feel like I'm on 24 telling Jack Bauer where the bad guys are in the building he is about to storm.
Mike
I have traveled cross country with my ipod and i have never ran into this problem. The way i see it, if google maps can find your location your ipod touch can because it uses google service to do so... i'm not much help here but maybe try doing a restore?
Location always seems to work for me so long as I am located on a network that has existed for a decent period of time. Skyhook basically just drove vans around and collected info from wifi networks they could detect. So, since I moved about 3 blocks from where I lived last year when their vans cruised by, location still works okay for me. It works for my parent's place as well since they've had a network in the same location for a while.
If you or the wireless network you're on has moved recently, then it won't give you an accurate location.
If you or the wireless network you're on has moved recently, then it won't give you an accurate location.
I submitted a revision request last year and it was on the system in less than a week.
I wouldn't call it a hack. Almost everywhere I have wi-fi is mapped, and I live in rural Southeast Kansas. Of course, I've submitted several of the access points myself, but Skyhook is good about quickly making that information available. Now I'm using Google Maps, Brightkite, etc. with ease.
They've started mapping SEK, near Pittsburg and Oswego.
Yes. I didn't really like giving out the info, but after I did my 'location circle' tightened up around my house.
Yeah well well every time I put it to "Find Location" It says I live in Pennsylvania, it even zeroed in on this house. The EXACT House where it says I apparently am. ........I live in Texas. It says i live in Pennsylvania in Every Location app. Strange.. huh?
It works fine for me in the UK. In fact, looking at Skyhook's website it appears that the UK has the largest proportion of area surveyed and covered by the service. They must update it periodically as it works whether I use my new Netgear router for wireless (bought in October 2008) or my old Linksys router. Both of them must have been logged into Skyhooks database.
It also doesn't matter if the network is open or not. Mine is WPA protected and it still works. All Skyhook appear to do is collect the MAC addresses of the wireless access points and tag them with the GPS location. MAC addresses can still be determined if the network is protected. You can check yourself using the WifiTrak App on the Touch. It shows the MAC address, channel, strength and authentication type for each network detected, protected or not.
It also doesn't matter if the network is open or not. Mine is WPA protected and it still works. All Skyhook appear to do is collect the MAC addresses of the wireless access points and tag them with the GPS location. MAC addresses can still be determined if the network is protected. You can check yourself using the WifiTrak App on the Touch. It shows the MAC address, channel, strength and authentication type for each network detected, protected or not.
Don't worry too much about it. Just set a default (home) location instead. I live in Columbus, OH and it told me I was in Kentucky somewhere!
Ha. SkyHook. Just like the thing in The Dark Knight. Some weird CIA thing.
Anyway, it's a funny story about the "mapping", because I have my friends old wireless router, so whenever I tell it to "find my location", it FLIES over to his house and places a nice fat circle around it. Dunno how to fix that though. Oh well. Wait... does doing it through the skyhook website possibly "fix" it? Just a curious question.
But, hell, I don't really NEED GPS. Why? Because I know where the F**K I am. And if you don't, find the nearest intersection and type one of the streets into google maps. BAM! There you are! And then route..... wow.... seriously. It seems a more gimicky feature than anything.... but that's just me talking....
Anyway, it's a funny story about the "mapping", because I have my friends old wireless router, so whenever I tell it to "find my location", it FLIES over to his house and places a nice fat circle around it. Dunno how to fix that though. Oh well. Wait... does doing it through the skyhook website possibly "fix" it? Just a curious question.
But, hell, I don't really NEED GPS. Why? Because I know where the F**K I am. And if you don't, find the nearest intersection and type one of the streets into google maps. BAM! There you are! And then route..... wow.... seriously. It seems a more gimicky feature than anything.... but that's just me talking....