If I had the hardware, yes. 

As it is, I will have an end user try a single linear distance that is 
known to him and see how it compares.  

Nathan

On Saturday, April 26, 2014 4:28:38 AM UTC-7, lbendlin wrote:
>
> You could verify the first assumption by doing the distance calculation 
> manually.
>
> On Friday, April 25, 2014 2:16:17 PM UTC-4, Nathan wrote:
>>
>> In one weekend, I suddenly got six reports that distance measure by GPS 
>> was way off. Way off. Like walk 500 feet and it says you just walked 32 
>> miles.
>>
>> On further interrogation, ALL of these reports were from device model 
>> ME173X, the Asus Memo pad.
>>
>> Possibilities are the following:
>> Getting erroneous or inconsistent results from the Location.distanceTo or 
>> Location.distanceBetween method. (Sounds really weird, but some behavior 
>> described by an end user could be caused by that.)
>> Getting a bunch of noisy location data form the GPS. But this is already 
>> a common scenario, and they would see other effects from it. 
>>
>> Anyone aware of any weird things from that device?
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>

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