It uses towers to work out how to find the GPS satellites quicker than normal, and additionally can provide some location information when no GPS is available.
Really? My Garmin device can locate itself without entailing the possibility of communicating my position to a third-party. There is no possibility that my checking my position can enable anyone else to know it as well. That's not true with AGPS.
That is one pretty significant way that standalone is superior.
If that’s important to you, sure. I’m, however, a bit foggy on the actual implementation of AGPS and don’t really know whether it actually sends your location info to a server. Would be nice to get some implementation details about that.
I think it was pretty clear that we were talking about performance – time until and precision of the first lock (which AGPS does improve), overall precision (which AGPS doesn’t improve) and so on.
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Assisted GPS is better than normal GPS.
It uses towers to work out how to find the GPS satellites quicker than normal, and additionally can provide some location information when no GPS is available.
> Assisted GPS is better than normal GPS.
Really? My Garmin device can locate itself without entailing the possibility of communicating my position to a third-party. There is no possibility that my checking my position can enable anyone else to know it as well. That's not true with AGPS.
That is one pretty significant way that standalone is superior.
That is one pretty significant way that standalone is superior.
Maybe.
The majority of people just want to know where they are and the quicker the better.
If that’s important to you, sure. I’m, however, a bit foggy on the actual implementation of AGPS and don’t really know whether it actually sends your location info to a server. Would be nice to get some implementation details about that.
I think it was pretty clear that we were talking about performance – time until and precision of the first lock (which AGPS does improve), overall precision (which AGPS doesn’t improve) and so on.