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by sandworm101 1375 days ago
This should probably be called "use-specific gps optimization". These are ideas that improve accuracy for specific use cases (cars on roads) but may introduce errors for other users (people in buildings). We see this with googles driver-focused navigation whereby it always pulls you to a road, even though you may be well off the road.

Ive seen this come up in courts. A gps record will say that a person is traveling on highway X instead of parrallel street Y based on speed or direction of travel. When someone is doing something unussual (high speed in wrong direction) mapping software optimizations may go haywire. This is fine, so long as we all understand the difference between the underlying GPS track and a software-optimized track that incorporates logic beyond simple gps position.

Take the unussual situation of a large traffic accident. We dont want the EMT position to be reported as being on the sidewalk just because they are walking. Or after an earthquake. We dont want trapped survivor positions to change based on expected interfearance from tall buildings, buildings which might not be there anymore.