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Weird, my Wifi iPad knows my location, and wifi is turned off...
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maybe, but the pin was lingering around the neighborhood and then settled on my house. i found it interesting. its as if it has some other way of telling your location
It could be using your ip address and getting information from your ISP or the big govnerment data base. Mine sometimes knows my location and I have a wifi only model.
Read the post, my wifi is turned off. And yes when it's turned on it locates by ip
I don't even know how you got Google Earth to load if your wifi was turned off.
It just errors out on me when I try to load it with wifi off.
Ok, first load of Google Earth with Wifi off, says Cant connect to network. Please quit than try again... Then I turned wifi on and loaded google earth and got my location. Then I exited and turned off wifi, and then I went back in and it let me continue without network, and it got my location based on last known location. Thats all it is.
It just errors out on me when I try to load it with wifi off.
Ok, first load of Google Earth with Wifi off, says Cant connect to network. Please quit than try again... Then I turned wifi on and loaded google earth and got my location. Then I exited and turned off wifi, and then I went back in and it let me continue without network, and it got my location based on last known location. Thats all it is.
Mine just asks whether I would like to use the cached maps when I open the app without WiFi on [on my WiFiPad].
Okay, I installed Google Earth (not maps) and it put me in the correct city, but was off on the street. It may default to a certain area in each town. I turned off wifi, and reopened app. It said could not connect but will use previous data.
I wanna know
I I've on a lake, took pics on the lake... No gps and no wifi out there... Moving on the boat... The map under photos pin pointed each spot on the lake where each photo was taken. Wifi and ip locations cant do that!
Also are there any arrow keys on. iPad? Sometimes when on a forum entering text in a window, I need to arrow up or down and I can't do it any such kb controls ?
I I've on a lake, took pics on the lake... No gps and no wifi out there... Moving on the boat... The map under photos pin pointed each spot on the lake where each photo was taken. Wifi and ip locations cant do that!
Also are there any arrow keys on. iPad? Sometimes when on a forum entering text in a window, I need to arrow up or down and I can't do it any such kb controls ?
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Re your first point- I'm not sure how it did it but there's definitely no GPS on the WiFi iPad.
And no there aren't any arrow keys. Just tap where you want to insert text (tap and hold for a magnifying glass to finely place the blinking cursor).
Also, you might have been better suited to create a new thread on your second question. It's not related to the original topic and this is a year old thread.
Rojoyinc said:
Re your first point- I'm not sure how it did it but there's definitely no GPS on the WiFi iPad.
And no there aren't any arrow keys. Just tap where you want to insert text (tap and hold for a magnifying glass to finely place the blinking cursor).
Also, you might have been better suited to create a new thread on your second question. It's not related to the original topic and this is a year old thread.