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minus-squarestoylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·16 hours agoLast year I drove around the northern suburbs of Stockholm and my GPS kept showing me being in the southwestern suburbs of Stockholm. Only my car’s GPS was impacted, not my iPhone and CarPlay.
minus-squareKerb@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 hours agosmartphone vendors map out the locations of wifi routers and use the location of known routers to improve accuracy. like an army of makeshift gps basestations. maybe this might make phones more resistant to errors than purely relying on gps?
minus-squarestoylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 hours agoI think it is more probable that it was due to the iPhone being able to use Glonass and possibly Galileo
minus-squareKerb@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 hours agoyeah, i didn’t think of that, that makes way more sense.
Last year I drove around the northern suburbs of Stockholm and my GPS kept showing me being in the southwestern suburbs of Stockholm.
Only my car’s GPS was impacted, not my iPhone and CarPlay.
smartphone vendors map out the locations of wifi routers and use the location of known routers to improve accuracy.
like an army of makeshift gps basestations.
maybe this might make phones more resistant to errors than purely relying on gps?
I think it is more probable that it was due to the iPhone being able to use Glonass and possibly Galileo
yeah, i didn’t think of that,
that makes way more sense.