{"id":17360,"date":"2013-05-05T08:34:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T12:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17360"},"modified":"2013-05-05T08:34:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T12:34:56","slug":"google-nexus-4-supports-glonass-and-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/05\/google-nexus-4-supports-glonass-and-gps\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Nexus 4 Supports GLONASS (and GPS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/computers\/screenshots\/Screenshot_2013-05-04-18-20-16.png.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"GPS Status on a Google Nexus 4 showing GPS and GLONASS satellite indicators.\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/104068-2\/Screenshot_2013-05-04-18-20-16.png\" width=\"384\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few days back <a href=\"http:\/\/house.ofdoom.com\/~hungerf3\/\">Jeff<\/a> pointed out to me that the Google Nexus 4 supports both <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_Positioning_System\">GPS<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GLONASS\">GLONASS<\/a> for satellite-based geolocation. I hadn&#8217;t noticed this before, but sure enough as seen above in <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2&amp;hl=en\">GPS Status &amp; Toolbox<\/a> there they are. The GLONASS satellites are the boxes shown in grey, where the GPS satellites are the green circles.<\/p>\n<p>This helps explain why the device is so good at getting fast location fixes and also why it works so well for my amateur mapping work. I&#8217;ve wanted a GLONASS-supporting device for a while and now I have one. Yay!<\/p>\n<p>(This screenshot was taken while logging the location of Stony Creek&#8217;s Trolly Trails so I can commit the route to <a href=\"http:\/\/openstreetmap.org\">OpenStreetMap<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days back Jeff pointed out to me that the Google Nexus 4 supports both GPS and GLONASS for satellite-based geolocation. I hadn&#8217;t noticed&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/05\/google-nexus-4-supports-glonass-and-gps\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Nexus 4 Supports GLONASS (and GPS)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-electronics","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17362,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360\/revisions\/17362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}