Distance to a location while user is in motion - ios

Question

I'm in the process of writing an application that shows the user's distance from a fixed point as the user walks around (i.e. the label showing the distance from the user to the point is updated every time the user moves). I use a CLLocationManager with the code shown below:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
locationManager=[[CLLocationManager alloc]init];
locationManager.distanceFilter = kCLDistanceFilterNone;
locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyBest;
[locationManager startUpdatingLocation];
}
-(void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateToLocation:(CLLocation *)newLocation fromLocation:(CLLocation *)oldLocation
{
CLLocationDistance meters = [newLocation distanceFromLocation:fixedPoint];
self.distanceLabel.text = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:#"Distance: %.1f feet", meters*3.2808399];
}
The label that is supposed to show the distance from the user to the point isn't updated constantly and when it is updated, it doesn't usually show the correct distance from the user to the fixed point. I was wondering if there is a better way for me to try and do this, or do the fundamental limitations of the core location framework make this impossible. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Are you filtering out old (cached) positions? You should also filter based on accuracy, you probably don't want low accuracy locations.
You won't get continous or periodic update, the callback only occurs when the location has changed.
Assuming the device has GPS and can see enough GPS satellites to get a good position, this works fine.
-(void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager
didUpdateToLocation:(CLLocation *)newLocation
fromLocation:(CLLocation *)oldLocation {
NSTimeInterval age = -[newLocation.timestamp timeIntervalSinceNow];
if (age > 120) return; // ignore old (cached) updates
if (newLocation.horizontalAccuracy < 0) return; // ignore invalid udpates
...
}