Swipe up on the app and pause, then swipe up again on the app preview to close it. Then open Maps again. Restart your iPhone , iPad , or iPod touch. Try a different location or switch to a different Wi-Fi network. Make sure that Enable Location Services is selected.
If the lock in the bottom left-hand corner is closed, click it, then enter your user name and password. Tick the box next to Maps. Make sure that your Mac is connected to the internet. If you need to report an issue in Maps or add a missing place You can report an issue with the following Maps features: Map Labels Search Navigation Transit Image quality You can also add a missing place and edit your home or work address.
On your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch To report an issue, or edit your home or work address, follow these steps: Tap your image near the Search bar.
The answer is, yes, absolutely they can. I'm sorry I didn't make that clearer. Better check your settings if you were unaware:.
This "feature" has been included since Android 4. Thanks to martinstoeckli for this information. Although turning off this "feature" on your phone seems like the best way to prevent your BSSID from being added to the database, this isn't necessarily the case.
You've got other people's phones, the phones of passers-by, and even Google's own Street View cars to contend with. Thanks to Bakuriu for pointing this out. Your SSID is the "name" of the network that you have chosen or have been given. Thanks for the tip Andrea Gottardo. For more, refer to the Google Support article about opting out. That means that the phone is in communication with the local cell towers. Android uses cell tower geolocation to estimate your current location. Each cell tower has a set of ID numbers that identifies them to the phones.
It broadcasts its identity constantly so that phones can connect to it as they move around. Cellular tower antennas are directional, with each tower serving roughly three different areas; you can think of them as three pie-shaped wedges with the cell tower at the center of the pie. Each of those wedges is a "cell" which is where the technology got its name. Each of the radios serving those cells transmits using a certain amount of power - the closer you are to the tower, the stronger the signal your phone receives, and vice versa.
Your phone uses the received signal strength to save batteries. The farther away a cell tower is, the more power it takes your phone transmit to it.
So a cell phone always tries to lock onto the strongest signal so that it can transmit using the least amount of power. A more useful way of looking at it is that received signal strength represents the rough distance to the cell tower. So now picture that cell, shaped like a wedge of pie, with the strongest signals received closest to the tower, and weakest furthest from the tower.
Imagine slicing the wedge of pie in curved lines ringing the tower, with strong signal strength in the closest slice and the weakest signal in the furthest slice. It looks very roughly the WiFi logo.
Each of those slices represents some tiny area of the planet, and you're standing in one of them. If you're in a larger populated area, like a city, your phone will usually get signals from more than one cell tower.
So picture the intersection of overlapping slices from tower A, tower B, tower C, and tower D. The intersections define a smaller and smaller area. So how does Google know any of where these cells, wedges, slices, and intersections are?
From the billion Android phones that have GPS turned on including yours, when your GPS was on , constantly sending reports of their GPS location and what cell towers and signal strengths they see. Google has used this data to map out where each cell is located, and what the approximate signal strength is at each point.
They have a giant database on their servers with this information; your phone queries that database by making a network request that lists all cell towers that are in range, and the Google servers respond with your estimated location.
It's all very approximate, of course, because radio signals don't actually travel in perfect little pie wedges - they bounce off buildings and cars, they get absorbed by trees and walls and fog and clouds and people.
And new cell towers come and go every day, so the radio transmitter landscape is frequently changing, too. The millions of reports produce only average GPS coordinates. But that's OK, because even imperfect location data is still good enough for most user needs. Finally, for additional accuracy, the Google Play location services software on your phone keeps track of the last known location of your phone , and may use this to better estimate your current location.
In particular, the last known location is a plausible estimate for your current location under the heuristic that you might not have moved since the last time your location was queried ; if this seems consistent with cell tower information, it might be used to improve the accuracy of your estimated location.
According to Google :. Your phone's location, if you have Location History turned on. In addition, you can set your default location using the Google Maps app, so you might've done that in the past.
Try changing your default location and test again with GPS turned off. You can test this theory by switching your phone to flight mode, then moving a distance away. If your phone still thinks you are in the old location, then you know that this is the case. Then, you can switch on features on your phone one at a time, and see when it works out that you've moved. That will tell you which radio was used. Big Tech loves to track us and they have geolocation capabilities built into their respective websites and apps.
If you use an iPhone, tap or click here to see a hidden map of everywhere you have been. Did you know that Google has been tracking and recording your every move, including your photos' location data? If you use Google Photos, prepare to be shocked when you see all the data the company has collected about you.
Unless you specifically turned off location tracking for pictures, every photo you snap will have the location where it was taken stored within its data. When opened, the Places section will show you a grouping of all the photos taken in a specific place.
If you tap on a folder, it will bring up a map with location dots to show the precise location where you took the photo. The same data is also visible on the Google Maps website :. It is creepy that Google can track your movements without you even realizing it.
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