“we have gone from just “a few feet” to ‘9 square miles.’”
When my sister and I travel together alone, I do location share with my husband. (It’s for safety. I watch too much Oxygen and ID. People disappear.) He knows exactly the restaurant where we’re eating.
MayflowerMadam wrote: “When my sister and I travel together alone, I do location share with my husband. (It’s for safety. I watch too much Oxygen and ID. People disappear.) He knows exactly the restaurant where we’re eating.”
Share my location is exactly that. Your cell phone know where you are using GPS, it then ‘share’s that location with another cell phone. IOW, share your location uses a cooperating cell phone for location. Tracking a cell phone location uses cell phone tower data to locate a cell phone. It isn’t a cooperative process. Different processes, different accuracies. Still, it’s BS to say that cell phone location using towers is only accurate to 9 square miles.
“When my sister and I travel together alone, I do location share with my husband. (It’s for safety. I watch too much Oxygen and ID. People disappear.) He knows exactly the restaurant where we’re eating.”
Yep, absolutely. My wife and I watched the Alex Murdaugh trial on court TV. They showed evidence from his cell phone where at one point he stopped his car for exactly xx.x minutes, where he walked out into the field exactly xx feet, remained xx.x seconds, and then returned to his car to drive away.
The detailed accuracy was absolutely incredible. I have known for years they can do this but how accurate it really is blew me away.
“we have gone from just “a few feet” to ‘9 square miles.’”
When my sister and I travel together alone, I do location share with my husband. (It’s for safety. I watch too much Oxygen and ID. People disappear.) He knows exactly the restaurant where we’re eating.
With Life360 (even the free version) - it knows the restaurant name and location.
From that, you can tie it with Google street view, and can give a picture of the location. Obviously, it’s not a live picture (yet), but Person of Interest (TV show) covered this eventuality by using any publicly shared camera (cell phones, laptops, etc.) to stream live scenes nearby.