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[Stefan Winter <stefan.winter AT restena.lu>]

Hello,

glad to hear that this works for you.

Indeed, the geo location in the browser is not always accurate. Unless
you allow HTML5 Geo-Location, we can only guess the location from the IP
address which sometimes is very inaccurate.

The best thing to do is to allow said HTML5 geolocation (which, for
whatever reason, typically works okay), or to live with the inaccuracy.

This should be much less of an issue on a mobile device since those
typically have a very good idea about their own location (GPS, cell
tower proximity, ...). Unless you explicitly turn location services off,
of course.

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

Am 25.02.19 um 10:29 schrieb TOBLINI Michele HUNIMED:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> thanks for your reply. Now that you mention the location I remember that 
> the system didn't allow me to put the address or geo locate during the 
> registration's process.
> I tried again and everything works fine. But i have to click locate to find 
> my organizations. If I don't do anything the first result is Perugia and it 
> tells me it's 23 km far away which is not true. It's 450 km more or less 
> distant from Milano.
> 
> Michele
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> Da: Stefan Winter <stefan.winter AT restena.lu>
> Inviato: lunedì 25 febbraio 2019 10:13
> A: Pasquale Mandato; cat-users AT lists.geant.org
> Cc: TOBLINI Michele HUNIMED
> Oggetto: Re: CAT Android issue
> 
> Hello,
> 
> yes, we've investigated the case.
> 
> The institution administrator of Humanitas did not set at least one
> coordinate pair for his institution in the CAT admin area. There are in
> total five institutions who do the same in Italy.
> 
> In the web interface, we work around that lack of information by listing
> institutions without coordinates first, subtitling them just "Italy"
> without a distance to the user. All the others are sorted by their
> respective distance to the user and are displayed in order.
> 
> You can see the (subtle) difference in the attached screenshot. First
> come 5 institutions listed as "Italy" and then comes the first one with
> geo coordinates, listed as "Italy 513 km", which is about correct as the
> distance from my office in Luxembourg.
> 
> The app currently only lists instutions with geo coordinates and
> displays them in order, meaning the institutions without geo coordinates
> get lost.
> 
> We are working on an app update to fix that in one way or another. IMHO,
> the distance-based automatic search should continue to ignore such
> institutions because there is no fitting place to inject them in the
> list. But of course a manual search for the name should find them.
> 
> In the light of this, we might also rethink the order of coordinate-less
> institutions in the webpage list; it feels wrong to give such
> institutions "priority".
> 
> The workaround (and in fact a good idea in genral, IMHO) would be for
> the institution to tell the system at least one coordinate pair with the
> approximate institution whereabouts.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Stefan Winter
> 
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