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Using SPace Software
SPace is the Spectra Precision software dedicated to
interfacing MobileMapper 300 with your mobile device. This
application is mainly used to:
• Connect your mobile device to the MobileMapper 300 via
Bluetooth.
• Connect your mobile device to a corrections provider via
the built-in modem or Wi-Fi, or allow SBAS tracking (for
SBAS corrections).
• Monitor GNSS and corrections reception.
• Check position accuracy.
Installing SPace
on your Mobile
Device
SPace may be downloaded from Google Play (search for
“Spectraprecision” applications and then find “SPace” in the
list of available applications). Then follow the instructions to
install the application on your mobile device.
Making
MobileMapper
300 the “Position
Provider”
It is essential that the position solution used by your GIS
application be the one coming from MobileMapper 300, and
not from the mobile device’s built-in GNSS chip. This is
achieved by enabling the Allow Mock Locations
(1)
option in
your Android device. You need to do this once, through the
following procedure:
• First activate Developer options in your Android device as
explained below:
– Tap on the Settings icon and then on About device.
Depending on the type of device used, the About device
menu is accessible either directly through the Settings
menu, or through the General sub-menu. It may also
have a different name (About, About tablet, About
phone...).
– Tap seven (7) times on the Build number menu item. A
message will indicate that the Developer options are
now active.
• Escape from the About device menu. The Developer options
item is now visible in the Settings menu.
1.The term “Mock location” is somewhat misleading and inappropriate here, as it designates the option that
lets MobileMapper 300 deliver high-accuracy positions to your application. Originally this option was probably
designed for test purposes (through which mock position messages from a simulator could be delivered to the
Android device). With MobileMapper 300, it is the same option that allows you to benefit from a much more
accurate position that the built-in GNSS chip could ever provide, which the name of this option does not reflect
at all.