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Old 04-17-2011, 01:11 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by Mad Mel View Post
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.
Makes sense.

I'm sure some phones are worse than others, in the way some phones have better reception than others, but a lot thse problems are probably indemic to cell phone GPS, in general.
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