Google at i/o 2013 presented Fused location provider, now only use it?

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Google at i/o 2013 presented Fused location provider, now only use it?

In general, what kind of fruit is extremely little known and there is no information on it on the Russian-language Internet, so I ask you to publish all useful links with your comments here.

And I have this question, if it is necessary in the application under Android, to take GPS data every 3 minutes and send it to the web server, then now the most reasonable way to get the coordinates is the method using Fused location provider or am I mistaken?
In general it would be great if everyone would speak out about what they understand by Fused location provider and how it can be used.

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Author: Deleted, 2013-08-29

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At the presentation, they clearly described everything. The bottom line is that in the open field, GPS gives good coordinates, but indoors - terrible. But using wifi plus the operators ' towers gives a noticeably better gps result.

Fused location provider is built on the fact that it knows (guesses) where the user is currently located and selects the correct source (or sources) of coordinates based on the available information.

Answer to 1 point. If your application to if it records the track of a motorist, then you can safely continue to take the coordinates from the GPS. If you write a program that tells the user how to move around a large shopping center, then there is only Fused.

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The whole point of this innovation is that if there is a phone in which, in addition to GPS, there is also GLONASS and Galileo , then the Fused location provider will be able to safely mix them together and get good coordinates. Otherwise, a programmer would have to write a bunch of code to bring it all together.