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The GPS issue was fixed quite elegantly with the **location module** added in Pythonista v1.4. The code below is not longer required for Pythonista.
gpsForPythonista using BaseHTTPServer and XMLHttpRequest Thanks to 'Hvmhvm' of Pythonisa fourm for working code Thanks to 'Anton2' of Pythonisa fourm for XMLHttpRequest
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| # The GPS issue was fixed quite elegantly with the location module | |
| # added in Pythonista v1.4. The code below is not longer required. | |
| # gpsForPythonista using BaseHTTPServer and XMLHttpRequest | |
| # Source at https://gist.github.com/cclauss/6578926 | |
| # Thanks to 'Hvmhvm' of Pythonisa fourm for working code | |
| # Thanks to 'Anton2' of Pythonisa fourm for XMLHttpRequest | |
| # http://omz-software.com/pythonista/forums/discussion/92/gps-access-solved | |
| # usage: from gpsForPythonista import getGPS; print(getGPS()) | |
| # or from gpsForPythonista import getLatLong; print(getLatLong()) | |
| # or from gpsForPythonista import getGPS; print(getGPS().altitude) | |
| import BaseHTTPServer, cgi, webbrowser | |
| from collections import namedtuple | |
| GPSfields = ('latitude', 'longitude', 'altitude', 'accuracy', | |
| 'altitudeAccuracy', 'heading', 'speed', 'timestamp') | |
| GPSvalues = namedtuple('GPSvalues', GPSfields) | |
| gGPSvalues = None # Global variable that will hold GPS info | |
| HTML = """<!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <html> | |
| <body> | |
| <div style="text-align:center;"> | |
| <H1>Gathering GPS data... Tap the Done button to see the results...</H1> | |
| <H2>Please ensure that Localization Services are enabled for Pythonista:</H2> | |
| <H3>Settings app --> Privacy --> Localization Services --> Pythonista (ON)</H3> | |
| </div> | |
| <script> | |
| function returnToPythonista() | |
| { | |
| window.open('pythonista://', '_self', ''); | |
| window.setTimeout(function () { | |
| window.close(); | |
| }, 100); | |
| } | |
| function sendPosition(position) | |
| { | |
| var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); | |
| xhr.addEventListener("loadend", function () { | |
| window.setTimeout(returnToPythonista, 100); | |
| }, false); | |
| xhr.open('POST', '', true); | |
| xhr.send(position.coords.latitude + '&' | |
| + position.coords.longitude + '&' | |
| + position.coords.altitude + '&' | |
| + position.coords.accuracy + '&' | |
| + position.coords.altitudeAccuracy + '&' | |
| + position.coords.heading + '&' | |
| + position.coords.speed + '&' | |
| + new Date(position.timestamp).toLocaleString()) | |
| } | |
| navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(sendPosition); | |
| </script> | |
| </body> | |
| </html>""" | |
| class RequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler): | |
| def sendHeaders(self): | |
| self.send_response(200) | |
| self.send_header('Content-Type', 'text/html') | |
| self.end_headers() | |
| def do_GET(self): # load initial page | |
| self.sendHeaders() | |
| self.wfile.write(HTML) | |
| def do_POST(self): # process request | |
| contentLength = int(self.headers.getheader('content-length')) | |
| postBody = self.rfile.read(contentLength) | |
| global gGPSvalues | |
| gGPSvalues = GPSvalues(*postBody.split('&')) | |
| def getGPS(): | |
| global gGPSvalues | |
| gGPSvalues = None | |
| httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('', 80), RequestHandler) | |
| webbrowser.open('http://localhost') # try both http:// and safari-http:// | |
| while not gGPSvalues: | |
| httpd.handle_request() | |
| return gGPSvalues | |
| def getLatLong(): | |
| GPSvalues = getGPS() | |
| return (float(GPSvalues.latitude), | |
| float(GPSvalues.longitude)) | |
| if __name__ == '__main__': | |
| #print(getLatLong()) # safari-http:// stops the script here | |
| print(getGPS()) | |
| print(getGPS().altitude) |
Retooled to use Anton-2's excellent insights about XMLHttpRequest.
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Self closing version : https://gist.github.com/Anton-2/6587375
I'm going to add the other location informations.