Re: Adding a GPS to a Mac for Core Location?
Re: Adding a GPS to a Mac for Core Location?
- Subject: Re: Adding a GPS to a Mac for Core Location?
- From: Rick Mann <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:53:11 -0700
On Sep 17, 2014, at 15:50 , Wayne J <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Sep 17, 2014, at 3:20 PM, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Sep 17, 2014, at 15:13 , Wayne J <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> Where you looking for something like this?
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>>> http://tinyurl.com/om8okny
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>>> It requires 3rd party software that I didn’t look at it does real-time GPS tracking.
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>> Nope, but that says "OS X does not have the same CoreLocation service available to it as iOS does", which is not strictly true. So, at best it's out of date.
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> I am not sure exactly what you are trying to use the location services for but I just spent a bit of time looking at this (I am also interested) and I don’t think that OS X really supports location services other than location look ups (your current location is really a location lookup of your WiFi MAC.)
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> Here:
> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/CoreLocation/Reference/CLLocationManager_Class/CLLocationManager/CLLocationManager.html
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> under the heading "Configuring Heading-Related Services”, it specifically states "These features are not available in OS X”. You will also notice that in parts of the API that deal with what I will call real time location they list when the OS X support started but in the discussion section they only talk about IOS devices.
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> This leads me to my conclusion that core location on OS X only “look up” services, you ask an Apple server where some static object is geolocated — street address, MAC address, etc.
For now, I only need location, but those limitations are due to the fact that Mac hardware doesn't have proper GPS or magnetometer. I also want my Map Kit views to show the user location. Since I can only get my own GPS location, I'll have to put my own marker on the map to show where I am (I think; I don't think I can tell map view where the user is).
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Rick Mann
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