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I used to ride a train which had onboard wifi. Whenever I was on the train and underground, Google Maps would decide that I was at the terminal station of the t
by skykooler 5y ago
I used to ride a train which had onboard wifi. Whenever I was on the train and underground, Google Maps would decide that I was at the terminal station of the train - which I assume is where it first scanned that SSID - and would try to reroute me.
- zimpenfish 5y agoI had this problem for a few years back in the mid-10s - any time it saw something like "Virgin WIFI", my phone would assume I was in Manchester, even if I was in London / anywhere Virgin trains go, leading to huge jumps in location[1]. [1] which annoys me - a smartphone should be able to figure out that I have not just travelled 200 miles in 2 seconds and filter that out. This is still a (smaller) problem - my current phone often thinks I've jumped 5 miles for a minute and then back.