Possibility to set location manually
Often it is enough to let applications know that I am "somewhere around", without revealing a detailed pattern of movement.
I suggest a system-wide option to set the location manually, by selecting in on a map.
Advantages:
- better privacy
- less energy consumption compared to GPS/WLAN geolocation
For reference (regarding UI implementation): for Android there is an app called "Fake GPS Provider", which does this very well.
Nice to have features:
- Location favorites, for easy switching of regularly visited locations
- Fake movement (sooner or later the data collectors will try to invade :-/ )
tokaru ( 2014-02-04 23:00:24 +0200 )editI know this is old and all but as there's still no solution I decided to have a look. It seems SailfishOS uses GeoClue and for that are mocking solutions available. So the first thing I tried was to compile and install https://github.com/inzanity/geoclue-mock - I also moved everything from /usr/local to /usr after installing as Jollas own GeoClue & co files are there, too.
After that I setted a fake GPS location via terminal:
and openend 2 map apps: One native, one for Android: It showed my old position (I even tried to restart the phone (Jolla C)) instead of the faked one.
Now I'm really no expert with GeoClue so maybe the Readme of geoclue-mock is incomplete and I'm missing some setting somewhere?
//EDIT:
So it seems geoclue-mock isn't running at all. Any ideas?
V10lator ( 2016-11-16 15:54:38 +0200 )editI know this is an old thread, but has anyone gotten this working?
sunburnedpenguin ( 2017-11-27 23:06:27 +0200 )edit