[OSM-talk] Neat use of OpenStreetMap

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Thu May 28 12:36:12 UTC 2015


On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 6:17 AM, MichaƂ Brzozowski <www.haxor at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This could be big. Remember that Mozilla Location Services does not
> provide Wi-Fi data download due to "privacy concerns" (Which is BS in
> my opinion). But with data downloads available, one can develop
> off-line location services that could very well complement one of our
> "selling points", that is full off-line operation. I wonder whether
> it's very hard to hack into location services of Android to seed GPS
> location with this data for faster fix (assuming root is available).
>

Not hard if you already have root.  You will need the Xposed Framework, and
then (if you have Google Play services) the MicroG NLP Framework for GAPPS
devices from f-droid.org, otherwise the same for non-GAPPS devices also on
f-droid.org, then the plugin I previously linked to.
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