This section describes the usage of the Simulation PSY Configurator application.
A developer of a location based application needs to retrieve positions during the development stage. With Simulation PSY it is possible to get positions when running applications in the Windows emulator environment and also on the hardware.
When testing, Simulation PSY enables simulation of different positions without actually needing to go to these different locations. With this software, the retrieval of positioning data is independent of any hardware.
Simulation PSY makes it easy to reproduce different locations, for example, to simulate positions on the North Pole, or to test how an application behaves when moving over the Zero Meridian. Without Simulation PSY it is hard to test applications in these kinds of situations. It is useful to test how a location application behaves when changing the accuracy of the location estimates. This is possible with Simulation PSY. It is also possible to test error situations.
The Simulation PSY Configurator application has been implemented for configuring Simulation PSY. It allows for the selection of the data file for Simulation PSY (data formats are described in File formats in the Simulation PSY User Guide). The application is not displayed in the application grid. It can be opened through the Landmarks application, which launches the PSY Configuration UI application as an embedded application.