Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Real Bev Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: GPS Accuracy Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 23:20:29 -0700 Organization: None, as usual Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:20:30 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="36a4b198f4e2d517d919de0f06378160"; logging-data="3713460"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/EpVyVyU9wDm+/0sCzDAifwpZRwQZRwy0=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 Thunderbird/68.12.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:p6VD2tciFEw5O7kvxIl8oOBjMP4= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1747 Sorry, I can't let that typo stand! Carry on... On 4/25/24 10:02 PM, The Real Bev wrote: > My family can track each other via google maps. Updates are sometimes > infrequent and locations are frequently off by significant > (quarter-mile, half-mile) amounts or moving hundreds of feet while > asleep in a hotel. Phones are Pixel 2 and daughter's almost-newest > iPhone. Freeways, big cities, places where there are lots of towers. > Verizon and T-Mobile > > Is it the phones or google or something completely different? > -- Cheers, Bev Some people just can't be helped; you take 'em out of the rat race for 5 minutes and they end up missing the rats! --XR650LDave