For some reason, my home shows up as incorrect on apple maps and google maps from any device in my home that doesn’t have it’s own GPS. I tested different devices, different browsers, and tested with a temporary user account to make sure it wasn’t something to do with the user profile.

I’ve toggled location services off/on, restarted the geolocation service, and restarted.

On my phone the location shows up correctly. I created a hotspot from my phone and connected devices to it and it still shows the wrong location. This isn’t a geo-IP issue. I’ve also confirmed that my geo IP shows up relatively correct.

I ran a command to show all of the BSSIDs where i’m at, and then found a BSSID map service. I only found 3 BSSIDs with a listed location, and they were all correct.

I tried using a linux device but map services simply show that the precise location can’t be determined.

I feel like this has something to do with Windows location services, but for it to be wrong on both devices makes me think it’s not an issue with my devices, but something wrong with the location services hosted by Microsoft in general.

Any other ideas?

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
    5·
    5 天前

    Do you mean typing in an address shows wrong, or when you do a " use my location " option your devices show inccorect info. If it is the later its because your IP address of your router is not always exactly mapped to a single address, it is sometimes mapped to a postal code location, or the location your ISP has on file for their address range of IPs which might be their office location.

    • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      5 天前

      Use my location is wrong. Same problem when at my home when using my phone’s hotspot, so it’s not a GeoIP location problem. I believe it’s a BSSID database issue. My ISP is starlink and they publish a .csv with the location information for my IP address. If my location were based off of my IP it would show a different address then what is being located.

        • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          5 天前

          Thanks I did that and they all seemed correct for the ones that were listed. I suspect MS has their own database.

          • BCsven@lemmy.ca
            1·
            4 天前

            I believe they aggregate based on those that choose the telemetry option to store that info in the cloud. Could be other peoples systems have reported in seeing the device but with an improper location info. Like if people across the road ping my SSID while their location is used, MS may get skewed position