diff --git a/handbook/computing/gps-location.png b/handbook/computing/gps-location.png new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5b7ac0167 Binary files /dev/null and b/handbook/computing/gps-location.png differ diff --git a/handbook/computing/myphone.html b/handbook/computing/myphone.html index 89a9b1c07..b050a0a9e 100644 --- a/handbook/computing/myphone.html +++ b/handbook/computing/myphone.html @@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ <p>Phones assume that you are walking along streets, or running along tracks or cycling. They are very bad at making the right guesses for the Totes Gebirge plateau. <h3>Location, location, location</h3> -<figure class=onright> - <a href='/handbook/computing/gps-location.png'><img class="onright" alt="GPS position controls" width=60% src='/handbook/computing/gps-location.png' /></a> - <figcaption> -A rack bar showing wear from only two or three expos -</figcaption> + +<figure class=onright width=500> + <a href='/handbook/computing/gps-location.png'><img class="onright" alt="GPS position controls" width=40% src='/handbook/computing/gps-location.png' /></a> + <br> <figcaption style="text-align: center"> Android GPS setting </figcaption> </figure> -<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 good GPS position it has recorded directly. + +<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 a decent GPS fix. There is poor cell tower reception too, so trying to use that for location is just as bad.