location provider ping-pong? about android HOT 3 OPEN

For the non-Google API, the current approach does subscribe to both GPS and non-GPS (network etc.) providers, and those locations arrive independently. Having something that can intelligently filter these is on the TODO list. I'm hoping this is partially fixed in the upcoming v2.5, but there's a number of challenges here that I think can only really be borne out through testing on different devices.

Is your non-GPS location coming with large accuracy value that can be filtered with the ignoreInaccurateLocations setting?

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Sadly the accuracy is useless for filtering. Here is a summary of the positions reports truncated to three decimals over the past ~24 hrs. The position with lat=30.502 is the inaccurate one:

  count acc,lat,lon
    645 100.000,30.499,-110.818
    551 10.000,30.502,-110.816
    378 48.000,30.499,-110.818
     23 3.000,30.499,-110.818
     10 48.000,30.499,-110.817
      8 4.000,30.499,-110.818
      7 18.000,30.499,-110.818
      7 15.000,30.499,-110.818
      6 24.000,30.499,-110.818
      6 16.000,30.499,-110.818

The location provider stuff comes from micro-g, I've had everything enabled as shown in the screen shot below. I did disabled the Mozilla/hotspot sources and left only the two "remember from GPS" a bunch of hours ago and it seems to make no difference. Reboot coming...

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Fair enough re: accuracy. That's annoying, I agree. Will work on a better solution for the future, probably will put the received locations through a kalman filter + some other sort of intelligence based on source and recent history.

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