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Originally Posted by whats_up_skip

I am not sure if I have the microb-geolocation module install. I couldn't find this in the application manager.

Originally Posted by wurtel

Open a terminal, and enter as command:

Code:

dpkg -l microb-geolocation

It should output a line beginning with "ii".
If not, you should be able to install ("download") it via the application manager, find it in the "location & navigation" category.

Originally Posted by gazza_d

Doing this from memory, but should all be correct...

1 You need to download the tar.gz file from this web page and save to a location on your N900 - I suggest the top leve (N900 in the file dialog)

2 open xterm change to the folder

Code:

cd /home/user/MyDocs

3 Type the command

Code:

tar -zxvf ./google....

hint change to the start typing the filename and then hit tab on the toolbar, it will autocomplete for you. It will create and extract all files to a folder named the same as the file you downloaded

4. once the extract is complete then change to the folder

Code:

cd foldername

as above start typing, and then tab to autocomplete


5. change to the root user by using the command

Code:

root

. you need to have the rootsh app installed from the application manager.

6. run the command

Code:

python setup.py install

to install the google libraries.

7. once the command has ran type

Code:

exit

this will drop you back to being a normal user.

8. create the folder for the config file using the command

Code:

mkdir /home/user/latitude

9. create an empty config file using the command

Code:

touch /home/user/latitude/latitude.dat

10. run the script with the command

Code:

python zaps-latitude-updater.py --once

ensure you are in the folder where the script is.

11. It will come back with some test, and a URL. tap the pointer n the toolbar, and cross it out. then select the URL, and xterm will give you an option to copy the URL or open it. Open it, and follow the instructions on the google authorisation page. You want to say yes to everything.

Hope this helps.

Originally Posted by MasterZap

<SNIP>
As for GPS, all the changes I did were the following:

#2: Tell it to ignore any gps point with an accuracy worse than 150 meters (actually, variable "acclimit" in the code is set to this, I was actually planning to make it an option, but never did, you could change "acclimit" to whatever accuracy you think is appropriate by just editing line 112 in the code)

Frankly, I don't know the GPS api well enough to know exactly what happens and if it will try endlessly to find satellites or not. Probably. There is, most certainly, no clever code in this snippet to try to do anything intelligent here, for sure.

For me, I have a low wooden house so I have quite OK GPS signal also indoors, and since I deem non-GPS coordinates to be useless, for me it is a "feature" that it never uses cell tower locations at all (then "last known good" GPS coord is better, IMHO).

But you are quite right about that if you are in a bunker, it will quite probably try for way too long. Especially since my extremely simplictic implementation of the "once" option, is that it stops after the first successful fix (with successful being "better than 150 meter accuracy").

So I'm guessing it will never actually exit properly for a cell tower location.
</SNIP>
/Z

Originally Posted by ny-hardcore

I for one work in a bunker type building, and my GF lives in a bunker type house

This results in the GPS trying to get a fix , and what seems like, never quits... alarmed keeps on firing up new processes that keep on running.. is there a smart way to set a time out somewhere?
f.i. that if no suitable fix is found within say 120secs the --once option quits?