It may just be a matter of data disparity - who really has more info to correlate multiple data points and triangulate you? Big G or one offline data provider?

It may just be a matter of data disparity - who really has more info to correlate multiple data points and triangulate you? Big G or one offline data provider? That said, I've actually (anecdotally, I guess) seen an improvement in the speed with which my device can locate me with LineageOS + microG. I've been using Unified NLP with the GSM location backend that you can find on F-Droid. Not sure how well this would work out if I, say, road tripped through an area without cell service - not sure if it uses ANY carrier's tower it can find (that your baseband supports) or just your carrier's towers. Waze finds me much faster on launch, though.