Accounting for indoor-outdoor transitions during position determination

A mobile computing device comprising:

• in one or more computer-readable storage media, a position determination tool comprising an indoor-outdoor status tracker;
• wherein the position determination tool comprises a stored indoor-outdoor status indicating whether the mobile computing device is indoors or outdoors;
• wherein the indoor-outdoor status tracker comprises a stored indoor-outdoor transition indicator indicating whether the mobile computing device is transitioning between an indoor and an outdoor status;
• wherein the indoor-outdoor status tracker accepts one or more initial indoor-outdoor-status-determining factors as input for adjusting the stored indoor-outdoor status;
• and
• wherein the indoor-outdoor status tracker is operable to request one or more additional indoor-outdoor-status-determining factors as input when the indoor-outdoor transition indicator indicates a transition;
• and
• the indoor-outdoor status tracker is operable to confirm or reject the indoor-outdoor status based on the one or more additional indoor-outdoor-status-determining factors.

One or more computer-readable media comprising computer-executable instructions causing a mobile computing device to perform a method comprising:

• storing a representation of a bounding box;
• receiving a current position of the mobile computing device as determined by a first positioning service interpreting data provided by hardware of the mobile computing device;
• determining whether the current position of the mobile computing device is within the bounding box;
• responsive to determining that the current position of the mobile computing device is within the bounding box, activating a second positioning service;
• based on the current position of the mobile computing device as determined by the first positioning service and a current position of the mobile computing device as determined by a second positioning service, determining an indoor-outdoor status of the mobile computing device;
• and
• based on the determined indoor-outdoor status of the mobile computing device, deactivating a positioning service of the mobile computing device, whereby power consumption by the mobile computing device is reduced.