My location - 5 miles away

[oli356]

So all the things which use my location seem to work.

Noticed this in track my iPhone first.. but the same in maps

It tracks me to 5 miles away. It's always worked until a week or two ago.

Anyone else had this?

A reinstall of iOS could fix it.. but not worth the trouble

 

[vincenz]

Maybe you've just been getting a bad signal lately. Doubt it's a hardware thing if you haven't thrown your igadgets at the wall.

 

[oli356]

Bad signal to :S?

Umm, I'll try on my iPod touch. Not got 4.2 so no find my iPhone but the maps will work

EDIT: Same location on that. I'm going to try tomorrow using my MiFi and then at college using that network

 

[mikelegacy]

This has happened to me before. Truth is that the location features on the iPhone just aren't so good. It doesn't happen all the time, and luckily very rarely when I using GPS, but when Im searching in maps I do notice that my location is often wrong. Not terribly, but definitely wrong.

 

[skunk]

I sometimes find in particular locations that I appear to be driving down a parallel road for a mile or two. Weird but not too panic-inducing.