Any #GPS / #android nerds wanna help me debug something?
https://gitlab.com/LineageOS/issues/android/-/issues/9652
I have two #fairphone3, one running #lineageos and the other running the default OS, and the lineageOS doesn't find GPS 99% of the time...
I'm at the edge of my knowledge and would love some suggestions for how to debug further, or if someone wants to jump on a call and try to work it out together.
Mathematikerin und GPS-Pionierin Gladys West im Alter von 95 Jahren gestorben
Die US-Mathematikerin Gladys West hat Modelle der Erde errechnet, die die Basis für die Positionsbestimmung per Satellit bilden. Sie wurde 95 Jahre alt.
Mathematikerin und GPS-Pionierin Gladys West im Alter von 95 Jahren gestorben
Die US-Mathematikerin Gladys West hat Modelle der Erde errechnet, die die Basis für die Positionsbestimmung per Satellit bilden. Sie wurde 95 Jahre alt.
Wanderer è un archivio decentralizzato di sentieri e percorsi in bici e a piedi.
Un’alternativa libera alle piattaforme estrattive: qui puoi caricare le tue tracce #GPS, crearne di nuove, arricchirle con metadati e costruire insieme una mappa condivisa, ricercabile e davvero utile alle comunità.
Scopri percorsi autentici, salva quelli che ami e attraversa i territori con rispetto della natura, con chi la vive e con chi la difende
pubblicato nel gruppo @fediverso
Wanderer è un archivio decentralizzato di sentieri e percorsi in bici e a piedi.
Un’alternativa libera alle piattaforme estrattive: qui puoi caricare le tue tracce #GPS, crearne di nuove, arricchirle con metadati e costruire insieme una mappa condivisa, ricercabile e davvero utile alle comunità.
Scopri percorsi autentici, salva quelli che ami e attraversa i territori con rispetto della natura, con chi la vive e con chi la difende
pubblicato nel gruppo @fediverso
Sun releases the largest solar radiation storm ‘in over 20 years,’ forecasters say
By Ashley Strickland, January 19, 2026
"Powerful solar activity released by the sun is heading for Earth and it’s likely to create dazzling auroral displays in unexpected areas Monday evening and early Tuesday morning. It could also disrupt #satellite-based communications and #GPS accuracy.
"A solar radiation storm, ranked at a level four out of five on a severity scale, is being tracked by the National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction Center, or #SWPC.
" 'An #S4 severe #SolarRadiation storm is now in progress - this is the largest solar radiation storm in over 20 years,' SWPC shared on X, formerly known as Twitter. 'The last time S4 levels were observed was in October, 2003. Potential effects are mainly limited to space launch, aviation, and satellite operations.' "
Read more:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/19/science/largest-solar-radiation-storm-auroras
#SolarFlare #GeomagneticStorm #Satellites #KesslerSyndrome? #Starlink
Sun releases the largest solar radiation storm ‘in over 20 years,’ forecasters say
By Ashley Strickland, January 19, 2026
"Powerful solar activity released by the sun is heading for Earth and it’s likely to create dazzling auroral displays in unexpected areas Monday evening and early Tuesday morning. It could also disrupt #satellite-based communications and #GPS accuracy.
"A solar radiation storm, ranked at a level four out of five on a severity scale, is being tracked by the National Weather Service’s Space Weather Prediction Center, or #SWPC.
" 'An #S4 severe #SolarRadiation storm is now in progress - this is the largest solar radiation storm in over 20 years,' SWPC shared on X, formerly known as Twitter. 'The last time S4 levels were observed was in October, 2003. Potential effects are mainly limited to space launch, aviation, and satellite operations.' "
Read more:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/19/science/largest-solar-radiation-storm-auroras
#SolarFlare #GeomagneticStorm #Satellites #KesslerSyndrome? #Starlink
Gladys West's vital contributions to GPS technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_West
#HackerNews #Gladys #West #GPS #Technology #Contributions #History #Innovation #WomenInSTEM
Looks like the #government of #Iran manages to enforce #censorship even beyond landlines and cell connectivity. They managed to render #Starlink terminals useless by jamming #GPS signals:
https://restofworld.org/2026/iran-starlink-internet-shutdown/
"Before GPS became an everyday utility, it was a hard mathematical problem.
In the 1950s–70s, Gladys West, a mathematician at the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia, worked on one of the most difficult challenges in satellite navigation: accurately modeling the Earth itself.
Modern GPS accuracy depends on:
• Precise satellite ephemerides
• Accurate gravitational field modeling
• Correct Earth reference frames
West’s work directly advanced all three.
Her contributions weren’t widely recognized at the time. In fact, it wasn’t until 2018 that she was inducted into the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame—decades after GPS reshaped global navigation, logistics, finance, defense, and mobile computing...
Before GPS could tell us where we are, someone had to define what the Earth actually looks like—mathematically…”
#Engineering #GPS #Geodesy #STEM #TechHistory #WomenInTech #DataScience #Infrastructure #WomenInGeoSpatial
H/T Evan Kirstel
"Before GPS became an everyday utility, it was a hard mathematical problem.
In the 1950s–70s, Gladys West, a mathematician at the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia, worked on one of the most difficult challenges in satellite navigation: accurately modeling the Earth itself.
Modern GPS accuracy depends on:
• Precise satellite ephemerides
• Accurate gravitational field modeling
• Correct Earth reference frames
West’s work directly advanced all three.
Her contributions weren’t widely recognized at the time. In fact, it wasn’t until 2018 that she was inducted into the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame—decades after GPS reshaped global navigation, logistics, finance, defense, and mobile computing...
Before GPS could tell us where we are, someone had to define what the Earth actually looks like—mathematically…”
#Engineering #GPS #Geodesy #STEM #TechHistory #WomenInTech #DataScience #Infrastructure #WomenInGeoSpatial
H/T Evan Kirstel
#GPS
Bon fuck finalement je ne vais pas prendre l'abonnement MagicEarth.
CoMaps est désormais parfaitement bon pour la navigation en voiture, et dans les rares cas où j'aurais besoin de l'info trafic, le passerai par Waze (que j'ai bien pris soin de configurer pour que l'appli ne puisse pas tourner en arrière plan).
#GPS
La note de MagicEarth sur le PlayStore est descendue à 1,4 (elle était à 4,2 à l'origine)
Félicitation aux robots-corpo fraîchement sortis des écoles de commerce qui ont dicté cette refonte 👌
#GPS
1,9 étoiles sur 5.
Ah ouais avec leur dernière mise à jour, MagicEarth a très bien réussi à cramer sa note sur le magasin GooglePlay. 👌
#GPS
Bien... CoMaps est absolument fantastique, c'est juste la navigation voiture qui posait problème. La dernière mise à jour a enfin un zoom automatique adapté au prochain changement, ce qui rend la navigatation *bien meilleure*.
L'indication des sorties est également amélioré (on a par exemple les numéros des sorties).
Pour ceux qui l'utilisent en voiture, il devient enfin *acceptable* et peut remplacer MagicEarth (info-trafic mise à part).
Pour autant, il n'est pas parfait: (suite)
#GPS
mmm... le changelog de la dernière version de CoMaps indique un changement intéressant, un reproche que je faisais à *TOUTES* les applications de GPS (sauf MagicEarth) : Un niveau de zoom automatique foireux et des intersections illisibles (coucou OrganicMaps).
Le niveau de zoom est maintenant adapté automatiquement à la distance du prochain embranchement, ce qui devrait en principe rendre l'utilisation en voiture nettement meilleur.
Je teste ça et je vous tiens au courant.
🛰️🇵🇱 GPSPATRON & Gdynia Maritime University analyzed GPS/GNSS Interference in the Baltic Sea over the last 9 months.
⏱️ 84 hours of GNSS interference (mostly jamming) detected.
📆 This October had 6 jamming incidents for 29 hours. It's intensifying ↗️
✈️ No correlation between terrestrial GNSS and ADS-B-interference
🚢 Maritime jamming sources were identified, with interference signals exhibiting movement patterns consistent those of vessels.
