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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!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: Erratic GPS Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:20:29 -0700 Organization: None, as usual Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:20:31 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e57fa31752e40258c8f682abf022618b"; logging-data="1706153"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Lo7Bumx5IqhlUc8fyABfOtI1PnXPEFg0=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 Thunderbird/68.12.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:7OTP4lIijFzJp7GuTWenCPlRGx8= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3626 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). > 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.