Anyone understand how Google location actually tracks you

[Branz]

I have looked at the maps for the last few days and the data shown looks wrong.
What does it use as a tracking system, is it the position of mobile base stations?
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Thanks

 

[roker]

I wondered about this myself, I stand corrected but I do not think it uses the satellites, I think it check your coordination between the telephone masks

 

[stefg]

As far as I'm aware, and it seems to correspond in my experience, it uses whatever it can; if you have GPS on it uses that, if you wifi on it can use wifi locations and if not it can uses mobile base station information

 

[jhegarty]

It users GPS and phone masts when it can't get a phone signal. The phone signal should be acurate within a few miles and the GPS within a few meters.

Only saw mine go massively wrong once. It had me over 1000 miles off , but I was traveling though the Bermuda triangle at the time.