09-20-2020, 11:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-20-2020, 12:05 PM by wi_badger.
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In my experience, Maps starts up from Wi-Fi if available, and seems to use Whois information for the IP address - sometimes it shows my location over 100 miles away from my home, at what I assume to be some facility of my ISP. This location varies from time to time, I should start logging this information, correlate it to my dynamically assigned IP, and try to figure out what is really going on.
When Maps has been open for a while, if I am somewhere that sees enough sky for the GPS to lock in, my position changes to the actual location +/- 100 meters or less.
Websites such as Amazon or Home Depot that try to use location services info from the phone do not seem to get any, so I think that the setting works as it should ... Amazon mostly seems to think I am in Seattle for some reason; Madison or Eau Claire are fairly common false locations that they see ... again probably IP address based.
- Yes, it's IP based. When I do a lookup of my IP it matches the incorrect location Maps shows. When I turn off WiFi and go outside the GPS gets my true location. Maps has no memory of this; when I turn WiFi back on, boom, there I am back in the North Woods. Throughout this procedure I had a 3 to 4 bar 4G cell signal, tower location does not seem to be involved at all.
When Maps has been open for a while, if I am somewhere that sees enough sky for the GPS to lock in, my position changes to the actual location +/- 100 meters or less.
Websites such as Amazon or Home Depot that try to use location services info from the phone do not seem to get any, so I think that the setting works as it should ... Amazon mostly seems to think I am in Seattle for some reason; Madison or Eau Claire are fairly common false locations that they see ... again probably IP address based.
- Yes, it's IP based. When I do a lookup of my IP it matches the incorrect location Maps shows. When I turn off WiFi and go outside the GPS gets my true location. Maps has no memory of this; when I turn WiFi back on, boom, there I am back in the North Woods. Throughout this procedure I had a 3 to 4 bar 4G cell signal, tower location does not seem to be involved at all.
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