[OSM-talk] Inaccurate GPS location

Toby Murray toby.murray at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 01:57:07 GMT 2012


On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:38 PM, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:
> After reading a news article about the effect the current solar storm is expected to have on GPS accuracy, I decided to see where my cell phone's GPS thought I currently was.  Usually it is fairly accurate, but tonight it thought I was about 12 miles from my actual location.  I tried three different apps; all gave the same, wrong location.

Interesting. I didn't pay all that much attention but I'm pretty sure
mine was within a couple hundred feet on the way home from work.

Toby



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