Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)
 

Thank you this is helpful. STRANGE... but helpful :)

P.S: I was able to reproduce it here. My problem is that I live in an area with way too good GPS reception I basically have to wrap the phone in grounded aluminium foil or go into our dirt cellar to kill the signal :)

LOL, see the error. Some code that actually does stuff had slipped into a case only true when verbose=1. OOPS :)

/Z

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)
 

Ok, when build 47 shows up it will have this fixed (as well as the facebook problem posted before here).

I'm actually more surprised how build 44 ever worked ;)

/Z

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)
 

Zaploc v47 is in the repository, testing now... (for Facebook Places)

EDIT: It works \o/
May I request a feature? It would be nice to add a Facebook Place to my existing Zaplocs. This way I wouldn't have to delete and recreate all my Zaplocs :)

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)
 

You actually don't need to delete them, you can just re-create them, and any zaploc reffering the same "true" spots gets auto-deleted. So it's *almost* like editing, but not really. :)

(I.e. if a spot references Gowalla place "Bobs House", Fourquare spot "Bobs Rezidenze", and you create a new ZapLoc reffering either of those (or both), the original one will disappear (you can't have two ZapLoc's reffering to the same database item).

I have no plan to add an explicit editing interface... really. Not something you do very often, methinks. But who knows. Some day. Maybe. Don't hold your breath, though, unless blue is your color :)

/Z

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)
 

If good GPS reception then no problems, if not then it never goes to sleep. I could reproduce problems also with v44, so I was just lucky to receive GPS signal then. This just verifies your assumtion about root cause.

Thanks again! Your software is great and support even better :)

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)
 

Ah, that will help me sleep a little better. I know I'm getting old and my memory is hazy, but I had no memory touching that corner of the code. It should have been broken in 44 as well.

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Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)
 

Well, if it is that easy then there is no need for an explicit interface. Thank you!

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)
 

I have an issue with Zaploc and network connection.
I'm using "AutoDisconnect" to kill unused network connection to save the battery. If there is less than 2kB/min during 3min period, connection will be closed.

ZapLoc should update location but without connection it makes an error.
To sync the mails, phone is set to connect to net in every 30min. (internet connections). More detail explanation why and how is below.
AutoDisconnect Wiki and autosync

Phone Control (DBUS)
Connect to any saved connection
Disconnect internet (This is probably not needed due to usage of AutoDisconnect)

Could similar functionality be included to Zaploc?
Example: When ZapLoc is trying to update location, then run the dbus command to initiate connection (even if connection is already open).

EDIT: This could be like an additional option that user can select from background updates (force to open network connection)

Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)
 

Heh, I just realized that the GPS code I use is off by an order of magnitude in the "accuracy" returned. No wonder we get so weird accuracies from cell towers et. al.... the value should be 10 times bigger than it was displayed before.

I'll fix this... not that it matters for much usefulness-wise, but it will at least display the accuracies correctly..


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Re: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)
 

It finally works, giving up if no location. Coincidentally, my GPS died.

Off to Nokia it goes.