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wolfie2
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Location: Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
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over the past few weeks there has been an issue with location services on iPHone 4 in Belfast area(stretching to Bangor in the east, newtownabbey in the north). Basically iPhone thinks we are in Gateshead, the result is that any apps which use location services give results for NE England and GPS on Google Maps is completely useless....does anyone have any ideas as to what is happening.
APologies of this has been posted elsewhere.
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| Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:35 pm |
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timark_uk
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Is location services different to GPS, or are they one and the same?
Mark
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EddArmitage
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Location services is basically a combination of all the ways an iOS device can work out where it is, so GPS, cell-tower triangulation, WiFi-based positioning... See here (iThink; in IE6 it looks really fuggly, but the PDF is about the one I was aiming at).
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timark_uk
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Is this just you experiencing this problem or are others you know also being virtually relocated? What software is this happening in? Mark
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wolfie2
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No it's not just me, there is a topic thread on this on Apple's Support Website but no one has come up with a solution. I am using iOS4 on an iPhone 4, it seems to be an issue just on iPhone 4, at least I haven't heard of a problem on any other handset. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... ID=2537525
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timark_uk
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That's really odd. I'm currently in Belfast (Just up the Ravenhill Road) and my maps application is correctly reporting my location to me.
Mark
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saspro
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Could be a carrier problem.
I've had loads of BT broadband customers in London who have recently started showing as being in Scotland from any broadband speedtest you do.
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jonbwfc
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You'd assume that was a DHCP thing. If they're using the IP address as part of the location data and the supplier does some background network changes that means a different IP range is being used, things are going to go haywire. The obvious thing to do would be to weight the various data items, so GPS data matters much more than IP for example.
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wolfie2
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It has been an intermittent problem Mark, lasting a few days. Strangely the weekend before last at home in Newtownabbey I was told I was in Gateshead but when I went to Lisburn Road everything was fine. Upon returning home as soon as I passed Central Station towards Yorkgate the issue reappeared.
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