minus-squareCummunism [they/them, he/him]hexbear13·edit-21 year agothey could have cell service for a call or text but not data and data would be needed for a map app. Although I think they could have thought ahead and downloaded an offline map of the area and maybe that would work with GPS and no data service. link
minus-squarelugal@lemmy.mlhexbear4·1 year agoBut than again, GPS in the mountains might be not so good when you are in a valley or something linkfedilink
minus-squareD3FNC [any]hexbear1·1 year agoMobile phone location data is almost never satellite GPS, they universally use cellular tower triangulation link
they could have cell service for a call or text but not data and data would be needed for a map app. Although I think they could have thought ahead and downloaded an offline map of the area and maybe that would work with GPS and no data service.
But than again, GPS in the mountains might be not so good when you are in a valley or something
Mobile phone location data is almost never satellite GPS, they universally use cellular tower triangulation