Network based location in Python?

[miohtama]

Hi happy Python friends,

Does positioning module support network based location?

http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/reso...hnologies.html

"These messages let the device owner decide if a network-resident LBS application, such as a weather service, may use the device’s location to provide the service requested by the device owner."

The benefits of this is that the location information is always available (even inside) when GPS satellite signal is missing. Also, looks like GPS receiver eats battery fast, so keeping GPS on is not a good idea?

Google Maps 2.0 uses network based location. It's not Python app, however.

We made some preliminary tests and looks like positioning.position() gives only assisted GPS signal i.e. you cannot ask direct network based location, but it helps to boostrap your GPS satellite signal. We might be using API wrong way.

If someone could point some examples, I'd be grateful!

Cheers,
Mikko

[hartti]

You can get the Cell ID with

import location
print location.gsm_location()

After that you need to find out where the base station is located, though... The ID does not tell you that...

Hartti

[miohtama]

You can get the Cell ID with

After that you need to find out where the base station is located, though... The ID does not tell you that...

Hartti

The point is that Series 60 3.0 FP1 devices do this cell id <-> location matching internally. You don't need to write your custom code for it.

Check Settings -> Positioning. You can define access point and server which is used for the cell location data fetching (my guess).

[otsov]

Does positioning module support network based location?

Yes it should as the Python extension "positioning" is agnostic to the location provider. It offers what ever means for obtaining location fix is available by using the "Location Acquisition API". In the following, "Verkkoperustainen" should be the network based location option:

>>> import positioning
>>> positioning.modules()
[{'available': 0, 'id': 270526873, 'name': u'Bluetooth GPS'}, {'available': 1, '
id': 270526860, 'name': u'Avustettu GPS'}, {'available': 1, 'id': 270526858, 'na
me': u'Sis\xe4inen GPS'}, {'available': 1, 'id': 270559509, 'name': u'Verkkoperu
stainen'}]
>>> positioning.module_info(270559509)
{'available': 1, 'status': {'data_quality': 0, 'device_status': 3}, 'version': u
'10.00(0)', 'name': u'Verkkoperustainen', 'position_quality': {'vertical_accurac
y': 200.0, 'time_to_first_fix': 12000000L, 'cost': 2, 'time_to_next_fix': 120000
00L, 'horizontal_accuracy': 200.0, 'power_consumption': 2}, 'technology': 2, 'id
': 270559509, 'capabilities': 1, 'location': 1}
>>> positioning.module_info(270526860)
{'available': 1, 'status': {'data_quality': 0, 'device_status': 3}, 'version': u
'1.00(0)', 'name': u'Avustettu GPS', 'position_quality': {'vertical_accuracy': 1
0.0, 'time_to_first_fix': 1000000L, 'cost': 2, 'time_to_next_fix': 1000000L, 'ho
rizontal_accuracy': 10.0, 'power_consumption': 3}, 'technology': 4, 'id': 270526
860, 'capabilities': 127, 'location': 1}
>>>

(Above example in English in the PyS60 API documentation, under "positioning")

http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/reso...hnologies.html

"These messages let the device owner decide if a network-resident LBS application, such as a weather service, may use the device’s location to provide the service requested by the device owner."

To my understanding this sentence has nothing to do with the PyS60 "positioning" extension.

Also, looks like GPS receiver eats battery fast, so keeping GPS on is not a good idea?

Have you tried adding a longer interval between the location fix invocation ("POSITION INTERVAL")?

Hope this helps.

[miohtama]

Yes it should as the Python extension "positioning" is agnostic to the location provider. It offers ...
Hope this helps.

Thanks otsov!

Looks like I was bugged by this bug (select_module crashing Python):

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index...55&atid=790646