I am running Google Mobile Maps on my non-GPS Blackberry Curve 8320. Yesterday, it started reporting my position as being in Fairfield, California. I am sitting in an office in Metro Chicago. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? Everything was fine up until yesterday.

Mike F

I too have the same problem. When at home and inside, it shows my position as being in London. The problem is that I am in New Jersey. When I'm at my office (again, indoors) it shows my position as being approximately 3 miles west of my true position, both in northern NJ.

The really weird thing is that Google Latitude shows the same office position but when at home it shows my true position.

I see this post is 3 months old. Does no one else have this problem?

Bill J

It's basing it off of reported cell tower locations and not necessarily instantaneously. I get a terrible cell signal at my home so Google used to occassionally map me in Malibu, California which is 20 miles across the ocean from where I live.

The nearest physical tower is less than a 5 minute walk away but behind dirt as I'm down on a steep slope to the ocean. My guess is some stray signal would hit from Malibu and that would be the only position it could map. Recently my signal improved to the point where I can even consider using EDGE at home so it now places me about 50 yards away.

My guess is you have a wormhole to London near your house and the cell signal is coming through. Watch out for roaming charges. Ok, my second choice on that is you're only getting one cell signal inside your house and it is mis-identifying as a tower in London. Seems like one database is fine and another isn't if latitude maps you ok and maps doesn't.

Maybe put the topic up on the Google forums and see if someone comes back with the real answer.