Just did a quick test at home, and the centre of the cross hair was my house! No kidding, it was spot on... Scary ****! (London) How is everyone else getting on? Wondering how accurate this baby is
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Google Maps Locate Button Scarily Accurate (UK)!
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Yep same here in Glasgow. The radius of the circle is fairly wide but the cross hairs line up on my living room 
Yep same here in Glasgow. The radius of the circle is fairly wide but the cross hairs line up on my living room
Damn, mine must not be working correctly. My crosshairs line up a whole 10 feet away from my living room and my circle encompasses our building and the ones directly across from us on each corner.
Seriously, this might as well be GPS, at least for downtown Boston. I don't think it'd be any more accurate for this location at least.
EDIT: Ooh! love the new directions option for starting or ending at "Current Location" i.e. my living room lol.
I reckon that you're gonna get a better hit with it if you're in an urban area with many mobile antennas (or cell towers for u yanks )
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Within a mile here. How many towers can your phone "see"? (dial *3001#12345#* and press Call from the phone screen, then go to Cell information)
There are 7 entries listed here which I believe means my phone can see 7 towers (could be wrong though!)
There are 7 entries listed here which I believe means my phone can see 7 towers (could be wrong though!)
Agreed. I'm in London and it got my street and the position in the street ! When I dropped the pin it was literally on my house number ! GPS ? Who needs it !
im in the uk but live at the arse end of nowhere, got me within 3 miles which i was suprised about.
Gonna have fun trying testing in the field tomorrow (well, not literally in the field, that would be ridiculous)
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I think it's using personal data that Apple has to link IP addresses/MAC addresses on your network to a location, e.g. when you registered your Mac or Airport with Apple.
It's telling my housemate that he is currently at *my* previous address, 7 miles away.
This is pretty worrying as it's sharing my personal information (previous addresses) that I had no idea I'd given Apple permission to use.
I just submitted a story about this to MacRumors so perhaps they'll put it up - though my housemate doesn't think it's too big a deal.
It's telling my housemate that he is currently at *my* previous address, 7 miles away.
This is pretty worrying as it's sharing my personal information (previous addresses) that I had no idea I'd given Apple permission to use.
I just submitted a story about this to MacRumors so perhaps they'll put it up - though my housemate doesn't think it's too big a deal.
