Topics tagged with gps

Stop asking me to turn on location accuracy

Suty — Invalid Date

@Ivaneck We use Google services in our app, so this is necessary to get this working.

Degrees/minutes not decimal degrees

idefix37 — Invalid Date

@seaski69 I agree, it would be useful to be able to change in Settings the format of the coordinates displayed for a location. In the mobile app, coordinates are displayed in DD (degree decimal) [image: 1727603234384-c5067779-2a27-47aa-a1b8-b53075385d6b.jpeg] While in the browser version it is in DMS (degree, minute, second) [image: 1727603351493-e6362244-4bd8-49e0-827d-f075371ef814.jpeg]

Windy has difficulties finding/displaying the current position

Suty — Invalid Date

@mfk1955 You are correct, but I was not sure if I understand the issue from the first message and we are aware of certain issue similar to this one and I wanted to see if we talk about the same one. Now I know that you mean something else and unfortunately, we are not able to replicate this one with the same SW versions. Did you try to reinstall Windy on your device?

My (GPS) Location Icon Arrow 180° Off

dudukaneka — Invalid Date

@Suty sorry, but adding a calibrate button that offsets whatever value the device is returning by the module of this angle plus the set offset doesn't seem to be too difficult, and fixes this annoyance of the users rotting the cellphone to figure out if the storm is coming from behind you or from somewhere else in an unfamiliar region when you are travelling. Just adding my 2 cents. Cheers.

Location off by 180 degrees

Korina — Invalid Date

@dcyukon Hello, did you allow Windy to use your GPS location? If you are on Android, I recommend to turn on the "precise location" option too. You also need to have GPS as default option in the app's settings.

Widget location on Android 12

Korina — Invalid Date

@ahlston Hi, do you have GPS as your default location in the app settings? You also need to allow Windy to use your location if you didn't do so yet. Please also make sure to update Windy, we released an update, that contains bug fixes regarding the location issue.

No blue dot where we are.

TechEdd_YT — Invalid Date

Hello!
I would really like to have an option that remove the blue dot witch indicates where we are
Thanks!

GPS position updating for radar...

TheRadarGuy — Invalid Date

@MVRedHead If you wanted to update your location, you could try closing the app then opening it again to reload your location. And currently, we can do nothing in terms of GPS location accuracy. I would recommend using high accuracy mode for locations if you're using Android. Also, currently there is no way for Windy to add a predictive radar feature to the service. It would be way to complicated.

Where are the basic app instructions?

idefix37 — Invalid Date

@mesalty To remove a favorite just click on the heart near the favorite name or delete it in list of favorites. [image: 1531945267727-400fcc01-a087-4a8a-9700-8e3fa771454b-resized.jpeg] To add a location by its coordinates (latitude, longitude) enter them in the right format: https://community.windy.com/topic/80/find-location-by-its-coordinates