Google’s Confused About Where I Am

For about a week now, Google Maps has been rather confused about where I am. It fixes me at a specific spot in Bukit Batok, when in reality I’m like 10km away, in an area also wrongly labeled as Pulau Bukom in the zoomed out map view. There’s nothing wrong with the GPS. It’s the way location is determined from cell tower information. For a while, though, I sent myself on a wild goose chase wondering if my dabbling with…

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GPS Navigation Put to the Test

I had the opportunity to put to test Nokia Map’s GPS navigation last night, traveling to a destination (Kelantan Road) I had never been to before. I did check up streetdirectory.com to confirm it was a locality that I was indeed unfamiliar with. So I thought, why not let GPS navigation take me to my destination?

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