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Old 04-17-2011, 12:56 AM   #11
Mad Mel
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Originally Posted by blankall View Post
For me, it's always been pretty simple. On the rare occasion it shows my location off by a block or two. I'm guessing this is more a problem with the GPS than the phone itself though.
One thing that can make a mess is the concrete canyon. If you're downtown in the tall buildings, the GPS signals will multipath like a beotch (bounce off the buildings) and the GPS gets a misguided notion of where it is.

The other thing it could be is if you aren't getting a GPS fix at all; GMaps will triangulate your position from cell towers, and that's a pretty rough-guess method.
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