Google I/O had some very interesting location keynotes and some big announcements about Project Tango. One of the interesting keynotes that we didn’t get to watch live – “Making Android sensors and location work for you” had an*interesting*update for the GPS/GNSS researchers and the industry as a whole.
Google is making raw GPS measurements available to developers!
“This is groundbreaking. It is the first time in history that a mobile application will have access to the raw GPS measurements. This is beneficial to many, but especially the phone makers, because they can use these measurements to help them in their performance testing.” –*Steve Malkos, Technical Manager, Android Location and Context Team
Okay, so what?
Google’s move to provide access to raw GPS measurements isn’t necessarily exciting news for Android users; the biggest benefit will be*increased location accuracy (and hopefully) lesser time to get that increased accuracy but for the developers and researchers this is great news.
Smartphones as earthquake sensor?
Remember the research (from 2015) where the scientists were working on using
Google is making raw GPS measurements available to developers!
“This is groundbreaking. It is the first time in history that a mobile application will have access to the raw GPS measurements. This is beneficial to many, but especially the phone makers, because they can use these measurements to help them in their performance testing.” –*Steve Malkos, Technical Manager, Android Location and Context Team
Okay, so what?
Google’s move to provide access to raw GPS measurements isn’t necessarily exciting news for Android users; the biggest benefit will be*increased location accuracy (and hopefully) lesser time to get that increased accuracy but for the developers and researchers this is great news.
Smartphones as earthquake sensor?
Remember the research (from 2015) where the scientists were working on using