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From: The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Erratic GPS
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:20:29 -0700
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On 6/23/24 11:18 PM, Andrew wrote:
> Andy Burns wrote on Mon, 24 Jun 2024 06:54:11 +0100 :
> 
>> The Real Bev wrote:
>> 
>>> Andy Burns wrote:
>>>
>>>> Losing view of the satellites and falling back to cell tower or wifi
>>>> location?
>>> 
>>> Standing still. 
>> 
>> The satellites aren't ...
> 
> Q: When you're tracking someone else, does "snapping to objects" apply?
> A: ???

Don't know.  If it's a setting I never saw it.  If it snaps that's OK 
because we're pretty much ALWAYS on major roads.

> I use GPS mostly in two situations, where I think I know where "The Real
> Bev" is having difficulties so allow me to try to patiently explain.
> 
> When "The Real Bev" is driving on a road, she is perhaps not aware that the
> blue location dot is "snapping" to "objects" (usually roads) on that map.
> 
> So, while driving, even at breakneck speeds around hairpin turns (which,
> I'm sure she doesn't do - but you get the point), the blue location dot
> serenely follows the roads without much of a deviation off the beaten path.
> 
> But that's due to snapping.
> Not GPS.

Seems irrelevant to the problem at hand.
> 
> Now, I hike. I'm in the Santa Cruz Mountains which are rugged (hell, a guy
> just this weekend was lost for ten days and he didn't run into a soul).
>   <https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2024/06/21/boulder-creek-man-rescued-from-remote-canyon-after-nine-day-search/>

If he had enough water but no food I would suspect that hyponatremia 
would have occurred.  Apparently not.  A former SC resident said that if 
he'd just kept walking downhill he would have come to a road.

> When hiking in rugged backcountry, with just GPS, the track I lay down
> bounces widely all over the place (just as The Real Bev is insinuating).
> 
> (Note that with back-country hiking, Wi-Fi precision scanning wouldn't do
> much good, nor would cellular tower triangulation - given the remoteness.)
> 
> Having explained that The Real Bev may not be aware of "snapping to
> objects", I must say I don't track other people on my own maps.

This is a family thing.

> So I ask the group at large this basic question related to her question:
> 
> Q: When you're tracking someone else, does "snapping to objects" apply?


-- 
Cheers, Bev
    If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
    start with a small country.