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<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
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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 good 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>.