gps

I have posted about this issue before, and found a few other people who have had the same issue with no solutions found. I am developing an Android app that submits a JSON query to a server with the obtained GPS coordinates and geocoded Zip Code. For brand new users that have never downloaded the app, GPS does not work whatsoever. It is not until rebooting the phone that GPS will work. After installing the app and then rebooting, the GPS will work every time without problem, even if they restart again. There is precious little information on this issue, and the only issue I have found refers

With the latest release of Android called Marshmallow,Starting a Bluetooth Low Energy scan requires permission from Location group. As a result of that one of the following permissions are required: ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION , ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION Any reason why we need to switch on GPS for BLE scan? Larry Schiefer BLE beacons can be used to get location information using nothing more than the BLE broadcast UUID data and an internet connection (e.g. iBeacon, AltBeacon etc.) Since this is possible and the data can be acquired via scan, a permission for location is required. In reality, ACCESS

I need to find out in what country given GPS coordinates are, on a device that has no Internet access (e.g. this , but without the easy on-line solution). Having no experience with GIS, I guess I'd need some kind of module that would statically store shapes of countries and match current location against them. I'd therefore like to ask what kind of tools would be best for this, and what is the best way to obtain the country data. I'm using Python on an embedded Linux box. There's a shape file here with all of the country borders. You can then use OGR or something like this to access the data.