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The Better Angels are a group of anarchists committed to feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist struggle who use direct action software development as a technique of liberatory resistance.
https://betterangels.github.io/
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All devices cannot see Alerter’s location -- on the alert itself as well as the map screen the error "Emergency alert signal could not be pinpointed on a map" appears. #133

Closed TechForJustice closed 8 years ago

TechForJustice commented 8 years ago

Steps to reproduce: Login to www.techforjustice.org/wp-admin > Tap Activate alert > The Screen now says “Emergency alert signal could not be pinpointed on map.” I checked my phone and the location settings are on, checked google chrome and the settings say that it will ask permission first so it's on too.

TechForJustice commented 8 years ago

This error message also appears even when the Alerter's location is detected and shows up on the map. picture1

fabacab commented 8 years ago

This error message also appears even when the Alerter's location is detected and shows up on the map.

The error depicted here is in reference to the incident location, not a responder's current location. It means that at the time the alert button was pressed, we could not detect a GPS location. This can happen for a number of reasons, including with Location services on, because it might take longer to get GPS coordinates than we are willing to wait. (We wait a hardcoded 5 seconds maximum for now.)

I think the UX here needs serious work, but this issue is a bit confused and confusing. Since we're reorganizing the repository generally anyway, I'm gonna close this one out for now.