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You don't think location is useful for a map ... ?
by readams 3y ago
You don't think location is useful for a map ... ?
- amlib 3y agoWell, a physical map certainly doesn't keep pestering me for my location...
- JKCalhoun 3y agoIt wants precise location — which I take to mean war-driving WiFi. GPS I am okay with for a map app.
- dwaite 3y agoIIRC, Non-precise location is cell tower level location or the like, possibly a 12 square mile area. It is also very cheap if the device is already connected to a tower. Precise location may be from Apple's SSID database or from a GPS system. Non-precise location may help with getting more appropriate search results but won't help you with turn-by-turn navigation.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoReading the documentation I can't figure it out. It sounds like there are a lot of things that feed into "Precise Location" that go beyond GPS. It could be true though that only cell-tower reckoning is used without "Precise Location". I generally only pull up Google maps on longer road trips that aren't really turn-by-turn, so maybe I have the only use case for a map with weak location services.
- elteto 3y agoPrecise location _is_ GPS, not the other way around.