Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Telling the android emulator where you are.
Once
Fun thing to remember is that the latitude and longitude are the wrong way round: you put the longitude first. Additionally use minus signs instead of chars, remembering North and East are positive.
So to fix a position like 55.623131N 11.997169 becomes 11.997169 55.623131
Note it uses proper decimal, such that 55° 35' 10" becomes 55.58611111.
For extra fun the
And if you tell the mapping application in the emulator to 'My Location', off the map will fly.
telneted into an emulator you can poke in a pair of map co-ordinates to give the impression the GPS unit has just got a fix.Fun thing to remember is that the latitude and longitude are the wrong way round: you put the longitude first. Additionally use minus signs instead of chars, remembering North and East are positive.
So to fix a position like 55.623131N 11.997169 becomes 11.997169 55.623131
telnet localhost 5554
Trying ::1...
telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
Trying fe80::1...
telnet: connect to address fe80::1: Connection refused
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Android Console: type 'help' for a list of commands
OK
geo fix 11.997169 55.623131
OK
Note it uses proper decimal, such that 55° 35' 10" becomes 55.58611111.
For extra fun the
geo command can even take a real nmea message
geo nmea $GPGGA,123519,4807.038,N,01131.000,E,1,08,0.9,545.4,M,46.9,M,,*47
OK
And if you tell the mapping application in the emulator to 'My Location', off the map will fly.
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