This past weekend, I made a long road trip. At one point, while in a
highway rest stop, I checked Google Maps to see how far I had come. To my
surprise, it showed me at a different rest stop, about 200 miles from my
actual location. I suspect that my phone couldn't get a good GPS reading,
and was relying on the WiFi ID from the rest area office. The other rest
area was probably using the same SSID.
I didn't think to launch OSMand for comparison, but I suspect it would have
given me the same bogus results, as the choice of whether to use WiFi, cell
tower, GPS, or a combination, to determine your location is set in the
system settings, not inside the mapping applications.
--
John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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