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Would showing something like “5 mins away“ instead of “800 m” be a simple solution?
by plumeria 6y ago
Would showing something like “5 mins away“ instead of “800 m” be a simple solution?
- kadoban 6y agoDepending how it works, probably not. If it's just a rounded value computed from the distance, you'd just have to do a small amount more spoofed queries. Each one would give you a thin donut of possible locations instead of a circle, if that's easy to picture. So ~3 attempts would usually give you a quite small area, and then you could narrow it arbitrarily from there.
- Narkov 6y agoIncreasing the sample rate will still reduce the noise.
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- godelski 6y agoIsn't this the same thing? The problem I see in the telegram screenshot is it says the first user is 863 meters away. Even 10m is fairly revealing and if you're max range is 7mi, 1m is extremely precise. Though this seems like programmers using the maximum precision they have but not necessarily the maximum meaningful precision (an all too common event).