"Michael[tm] Smith" <mike@w3.org>, 2014-08-13 10:11 +0900: > As I understand it, the logic that some devices use for determining > location is not logic that's in the OS/platform software but instead logic > on the chipset on the device, and the chipset location logic, down at that > level, maybe using multiple sources to determine the location -- and the > platform APIs available on the hosting device may not even themselves > expose a means to control what location sources are used. To be more clear, what I meant here is more precisely that the logic which ends up being used to actually choose which sources (GPS, Wifi, whatever) for determining the location is sometimes (often?) logic down in the chipset -- through a location function of the chipset that even down that level abstracts away which particular means of determining the location are used (similar to the way the Geolocation API abstracts it out way higher up at the Web API level) (Of course after that the actual means the device uses for doing a location query is through some hardware on the device.) --Mike -- Michael[tm] Smith http://people.w3.org/mike
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