eticketapp
The official iPhone application of The DIS
- Joined
- Aug 13, 2009
We just left our week long vacation and of course, love the app. The one thing I noticed (and at DAP too) was the DPS finder puts me about 1000 yards from where I actually am. We were in building 49 at OKW but it kept putting me in the woods near the highway behind building 55.
When were were at the Dolphin, I was off in the woods. LOL
What you experienced is the app using the GPS in non-tracking mode. We revert to this mode to conserve battery life. Instead of going first to the satellites, we ping your location off local cell towers. This helps both the map and app load quicker, but sometimes less accurate. If you aren't getting a close enough pinpoint for your immediate needs, you can force the app to find your exact location by pressing the "find me" button on the map page. See the FAQs page on the eTicketapp.com site:
http://www.eticketapp.com/faqs/technical/the-gps-seems-to-be-inaccurate.html
Of course you have to be somewhere with a clear view of the sky, otherwise you will get a bad result. So no indoor GPS tracking.