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From: The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: GPS Acciracu
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 23:30:48 -0700
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On 4/25/24 11:05 PM, J=C3=B6rg Lorenz wrote:
> On 26.04.24 07:02, The Real Bev wrote:
>> My family can track each other via google maps.  Updates are sometimes=
=20
>> infrequent and locations are frequently off by significant=20
>> (quarter-mile, half-mile) amounts or moving hundreds of feet while=20
>> asleep in a hotel.  Phones are Pixel 2 and daughter's almost-newest=20
>> iPhone.  Freeways, big cities, places where there are lots of towers. =

>> Verizon and T-Mobile
>>=20
>> Is it the phones or google or something completely different?
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> Are the GPS-location settings already set to the highest precision leve=
ls?
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> https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3467281?hl=3Den

Yup, all those were already ON. (Pixel2/Android 11)  I have a keepgo=20
data SIM that I use my google voice number with, but it makes no=20
difference whether I turn that on or off as long as I have wifi on.

> https://support.apple.com/en-us/102647

No idea and daughter is somewhere in the Atlantic on her way to Iceland. =

  Still just off New York, of course :-(  It will be maybe a month...

> Both articles will help you to maximise location precision. Pls read it=

> very carefully.
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> HTH, J=C3=B6rg

Thx.

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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