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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: GPS Acciracu Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:48:26 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: <v0fm8o$3ieve$1@dont-email.me> References: <v0fchb$3ggv0$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:48:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c39e9478a4b4df1a3d6c1fe60fcd7186"; logging-data="3750894"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ojicerwz9y7K2K5fVBMvQ" User-Agent: Betterbird (Windows) Hamster/2.1.0.1548 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZSJSeGm+2gIIiRJB1wc05UQAuk4= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <v0fchb$3ggv0$1@dont-email.me> Bytes: 1954 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. -- microblog: https://dice.camp/@kyonshi macroblog: https://gmkeros.wordpress.com pictures: https://portfolio.pixelfed.de/kyonshi