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<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.
<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.
<h2>Privacy settings - not what we want here</h2>
<p>When you share photos on your phone to the Expo photo sharing site, by default, the location of those photos will be stripped out. So all those lovely pics of intriguing cave entrances you snapped on your walks are now utterly useless.
<p>So, before expo, perhaps while sitting in a traffic jam around Munich or on the train from Bad Ischl, take a moment to photograph your travel companions in an embarassing pose and fix the this: