It might be that some of the confusion here is caused by bug 1462664, where the GPS sometimes stops working when wi-fi is turned on. The net result of that would be that GPS + Wi-Fi + cell tower data effectively became just Wi-Fi + cell tower data, and therefore was less accurate. But that's just a bug.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1421623 Title: Welcome wizard claims GPS is less accurate than wifi based location Status in the base for Ubuntu mobile products: New Status in Ubuntu UX bugs: Triaged Status in ubuntu-system-settings package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: First boot welcome wizard in location sections claims GPS is less accurate than network based location service from HERE. While this can be theoretically true in some insane corner case, in normal life GPS is far more accurate. To help form correct text here are main differences. GPS - more accurate, but slow to acquire fix, does not work indoors, drains battery more, no need for internet connection, does not send any data out. Network based location - almost instant to get coarse location, works indoors, accuracy depends on network coverage in the area, more power efficient, requires internet connection. To get location data about visible GSM network and wifi networks needs to be send to 3rd party server. tested on krillin vivid-proposed r107 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1421623/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
