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Hi

I'm just wondering about something. I am trying to use the location module, but something I found out very early on is that it appears the timestamp that location.get_location() gets, always is the same, unless I restart the script. Am I doing something wrong, or does this have something to do with the way IOS works?

btw, I'm doing it like this.

import location

while True:
    location.start_updates()
    sleep(3) #Or some other number
    loc = location.get_location()
    location.stop_updates()
    print loc.get('timestamp')

Hello,

I am having the same problem, unable to update location within a loop. Did you figure out how to fix this?The following code shows the same location and time stamp for each iteration of the loop.

import location, time

def getLocation():

location.start_updates()

time.sleep(5)  # give GPS hardware 5 seconds to wake up

currLoc = location.get_location()

return currLoc

x=0

while x<10:

print(getLocation())

x=x+1

Hello both. I found the same issue as well.

Both in a Scene based script and a script in the interpreter, I can't get the location module to update within a loop.

I am not sure if this could be an iOS "feature" that limits Pythonista's continuous sensing possibilities in a way. Would be great through if it would be possible to sense the location within a loop.

Hello,

same here, please anybody, a solution would be highly appreciated, this is quite an annoying problem for me.

THank you so much,

Hubertus