If the #1 is what you want, there is already one in the Latitude thread. Use Azteku's original "latitude-updater.py", since it only does cell tower mode.

Personally, I find "cell tower only" COMPLETELY useless. This is probably because I'm in the coutry, and "cell towers" are things between 2 and 8 miles away from me, and, honestly, locating me with that "accuracy" (if that's the word) is more than meaningless, it's just plain misleading and wrong.

Also, I don't know how you would ever do auto-checkin to spots with accuracy of less-than-100-m with cell towers.

HOWEVER: The other two features are planned
- photos
- and ONLY update the GPS position when cell tower changes

The latter even has a spot in the UI already, but it doesn't actually work right yet.

The idea is to be a "best of both worlds"; i.e. not turn the GPS on *at all* unless the cell tower changes. When it DOES change, it turns on the GPS for a little while to at least *try* get get a better estimate of location than the crappy cell tower location.

Wouldn't that be BETTER than "cell tower only", y'think?


Also, "faster updates while moving" is actually already there. I said the GPS sleeps for X minutes between "takes"? Well, actually, it only "sleeps" if your speed is below a certain number. There is a different (built in, not currently configurable) time limit between these samples of 2 minutes. So if you take a drive you should actually be able to track that drive on your Latitude history.


/Z