GPS access

[CJFData]

In Pico Transit's explore mode (Pico transit is the transit tool I'm working on) I try to identify the closest stop to the user they can board from via IP. It's awful over cellular and often gets results states away. Is there any likelihood gps as available from directions will be available from the sdk? I only need the app to ping location once. If not I plan to just have them search for the address, ping nominatim for translation to lat-long, and they can be on their merry way and I'll do away with the IP ping entirely as it's not as reliable as GPS.

[dkb-pixel]

I ran into the same limitation while building a tool that needs a single location lookup (not background tracking)

The SDK metadata allows ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION and ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION but the build policy appears to block the Android APIs needed to obtain location. An API for last-known location and one cancellable, time-bounded current-location request would address my use case as well.

[dupontgu]

We definitely want this! Will try to get to it after we get through our current File Manager/ Keyboard work. If anyone wants to take a stab at it in the meantime, please file an issue and tag me. We likely won't support background tracking but tools should definitely be able to query/monitor current location while in focus.

[dupontgu]

Actually - we may want to proxy this through LightOS since we're already well integrated with the Here SDK. let me look into that further. Might be something quick we can do.

[CJFData]

For the map, I'm using open source tools like open street map (CARTO) and nominatim. I know from one of Joe's Q&As way back he described how light pays for a license for HERE and probably a little more considering there's no ads and no personal data share. for pico transit I don't rely on anything that requires Here maps especially if it results in more pings than were ready for. Of course, I'm not opposed to building this on HERE libraries if it keeps things more stable. That being said... if I had to ask for anything from Here it would be access to an aggregator for public transit GTfS feeds. On the reddit page, people are curious about integration with other local feeds worldwide, I'd have to provide some degree of support for each transit agency, unless I donate to an aggregator like transitland's api or... potentially... if here maps provides an aggregator for public transit gtfs feeds... 👀

[dupontgu]

I just meant using HERE for actually getting accurate location - they provide an fused location provider like Google's, but does require Play Services. I would say keep going with what you've got for the map stuff.

[CJFData]

got it, all I need is a raw lat-long so didn't think HERE would be needed for that but that would work, sorry I thought youwere referring to HERE for more map related stuff