GPS issues in Beyond411 diagnosed
Many users have noted difficulties with GPS in Beyond411.
I’ve investigated and discovered that the web service I am using for reverse geocoding is incorrectly returning empty results in many cases.
I have notified the providers of the web service; I will post an update as available. I believe it should be possible to fix this on the server with no client changes.
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Phil: your time and effort is much appreciated. Keep up the great work.
By Jon on 04.20.08 9:02 pm
Also found a bug in b411 wrt gps.
If you disable gps on the device you’ll get an error while (trying) to launch b411 if you had gps as search result.
By jim on 05.27.08 7:03 pm
This is still not fixed. reverse geocoding is still inoperable for many users. Will this be fixed or will users abandon this software?
By Michael on 07.25.08 7:42 pm
Unfortunately, the only option is to purchase a commercial service, which is prohibitively expensive.
By Phil Bogle on 07.25.08 11:01 pm
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