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  • Kerb
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    18 hours ago

    smartphone vendors map out the locations of wifi routers and use the location of known routers to improve accuracy.

    like an army of makeshift gps basestations.

    maybe this might make phones more resistant to errors than purely relying on gps?

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      16 hours ago

      I think it is more probable that it was due to the iPhone being able to use Glonass and possibly Galileo

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        16 hours ago

        yeah, i didn’t think of that,
        that makes way more sense.