[android-developers] Re: network LocationProvider

If the WiFi service is turned off the you will get position from the
cell tower.
If you could turn off the cell service and keep WiFi on then you get
position from WiFi (however I don't think you can turn off
phone service easily)
But you can use the location accuracy to differentiate between WiFi
and cell-tower based location
WiFi will give you position accuracy around 50m, cell tower - more
than hundred (from my experience - 200-300m)

On Dec 29, 8:20 am, Dan <dan.schm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a request to distinguish location sources from the network
> LocationProvider (is it cell tower based, or ip address based).
>
> Is there a safe rule of thumb proxy I can use to determine this
> e.g. if the phone has a cell signal it uses the cell tower because
> that is more accurate, otherwise it uses the network?

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