Re: GPS Acciracu

On 26/04/2024 06:02, The Real Bev wrote:

My family can track each other via google maps.  Updates are sometimes infrequent and locations are frequently off by significant (quarter-mile, half-mile) amounts or moving hundreds of feet while asleep in a hotel.  Phones are Pixel 2 and daughter's almost-newest iPhone.  Freeways, big cities, places where there are lots of towers. Verizon and T-Mobile
 Is it the phones or google or something completely different?

Being able to track someone's location is dependent on two things. 1) GPS (and maybe wifi) to place the phone's location, 2) a data connection to share the location with others.
Restrictions/limitations in either of those things will affect accuracy/frequency of information.
It's safe to say that the systems are complex enough to say that "it depends". Too many variables.
Sometimes with the four of us being all in the one house our locations can still be wildly different.