Benjamin-Loison / organicmaps

🍃 Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by MapsWithMe (MapsMe) founders and our community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. Please donate to support the development!
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Use last known GPS location when open the app instead of waiting for a new one #27

Open Benjamin-Loison opened 6 months ago

Benjamin-Loison commented 6 months ago

Especially as if far away then have moving animation which involves an additional delay.

Related to Benjamin_Loison/WhatsApp/issues/2.

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Benjamin-Loison commented 5 months ago

Contrarily to WhatsApp this app always has access to my location, so it should be able to leverage it.

Benjamin-Loison commented 5 months ago

This feature would particularly be interesting when we want to locate us on a map but when we are in an unknown location building. Even if provided the permission Allow only while using the app, could ask anyway for privacy reasons consent to give the app the last known location by showing it. So this use-case is quite very different as the original one. Here the stake is that even we wait infinitely we will not be able to be located within a building while in the original use-case the purpose was just to wait a few seconds before getting current location.

Benjamin-Loison commented 1 month ago

Last location can be understood also as the phone always trying to locate itself and leverage last known location before opening the app.