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<p>Do <em>not</em> select the "high accuracy" location setting on your phone. Mostly this will snap your position to the nearest cafe or bierstube: by default it will use the nearest WiFi it can find and assume that you are there, and will ignore the perfectly reasonable GPS position it has recorded directly.
<p>This is all explained by Google <a href="https://support.google.com/maps/answer/2839911?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform=Android">here</a>.
<p>On the plateau, this "high accuracy" mode will simply give you the <em>wrong</em> position if it can't get an excellent GPS fix (but we only need a "good" one). There is poor cell tower reception too, so trying to use that for location is just as bad.
<div class="onright"> <figure> <a href='/handbook/survey/l/insert-ringed.html'><img src='/handbook/survey/t/insert-ringed.jpg' /></a>&nbsp;<br /><caption>11 meter "accuracy"</caption></figure></div> <p>On the plateau, this "high accuracy" mode will simply give you the <em>wrong</em> position if it can't get an excellent GPS fix (but we only need a "good" one). There is poor cell tower reception too, so trying to use that for location is just as bad.
<p>What you want is GPS and <em>only</em> GPS (more precisely <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNSS_applications">GNSS</a>: which includes GPS, Glosnas, Beidou, Galileo etc.).
<p>If you do not have a good GPS fix, <em>you want to know that</em>, not be given some confabulated guesstimate by whatever some programmer for Apple or Android thought your might want.
<p>Even if you do everything right, it is very common for the horizontal accuracy on the plateau to be 10m or worse: see the image showing "E H/V 11.2/8.6m" (E)stimated (H)orizontal 11.2m (Acc)uracy. (The vertical accuracy is just completely bogus, ignore it.) This is at the entrance to 1623/196.
<h4>Airplane Mode</h4>
<p>If all that config sounds too tricky, or if you have done it but are not confident that it works, just put your phone into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane_mode">Airplane Mode</a> when on the plateau, and re-start your GPS app after you do so.