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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: GPS Acciracu
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:48:26 +0200
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On 4/26/2024 7:02 AM, 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?
> 

I think that's a problem with Google Maps, I have noticed I am getting 
rather inaccurate measurements when following my walks on Maps. It gets 
a bit better if I actually use the application during the walk, but if I 
don't it will just guesstimate my location and sometimes be hundreds of 
meters off the target.

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