Thread: Phone GPS wonky
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Old 02-21-24 | 06:30 AM
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Originally Posted by pdlamb
I've been using either Strava or RidewithGPS on my phone to let my wife track me during my rides. Recently, both have started showing some spurious points that drive her (and therefore me too!) nuts. While riding, the track show I'm following the road, and then there's a point a quarter mile off in a cornfield then back to the road in a sawtooth route, or it looks like I hiked into the woods and came back and kept riding. I sort of like these rides because I get a track a quarter to a third longer than what I actually rode. But SWMBO is afraid she'll run into rattlesnakes or bears if she has to come looking for me.

Subject phone is just under two years old, Samsung A23.

Is there a way to apply some more filtering to the phone's GPS, or force either app to use a sanity check to smooth the track out?
This complaint doesn’t seem common at all. It might be interesting to see the track.

If it’s “recent”, that suggests the phone hardware is not working properly.
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