Feature request: Find location by network
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Hello,
this app is a great idea! Thank you!
Currently it finds the location only by GPS. Depending on the current location this may take a long time while other apps already found the location by network. Can you add this feature?
Fairphone 3, /e/OS (based on LineageOS for microG, Android 11)
For privacy reasons this app only uses GPS. Other location providers need external services to lookup location.
I see. I have /e/OS on my phone (microG with UnifiedNLP instead of Google services), it only uses the Mozilla database. Maybe you could add it as an option so users can decide whether to allow it?
Network provider is usually not very exact, so probably it is worth waiting a few seconds more to get a precise location.
The next version (see #12) will also show your current position with a moving icon on the map