Oh dear.

[jennaria]

LAST NIGHT

Wizards Unite: YOU'RE GOING TOO FAST! Do not drive while using Harry Potter Wizards Unite. [OK] [I'm a passenger]

Me: ...I literally have not moved off my couch for the past fifteen minutes.

(The GPS got momentarily confused, and thought I was somewhere else in the apartment complex, then fixed itself. Either that or this is some kind of Computer Plot, where my little blue witch proxy is off having fun without me, and has to rush back to Equivalent Spot when I open the game. Tron/Harry Potter crossover/fusion?)

Comments

[the_rck]

Some buildings really confuse the GPS tracking for Niantic games. The local hospital does; the circle within which I can do Ingress things hops around and drifts. It also catches up with my movement abruptly after I've been moving for a while. I was in a waiting room in an office building on Monday, and my in-game location was jumping around by blocks. Walking under a concrete bridge or into a narrow alley can also confuse the GPS.

While I'm out and walking around, I'll sometimes stop and stand still to see if GPS drift will move my radius just enough that I can reach something just beyond the current perimeter.

[jennaria]

My office is in a marble building, so I'm just happy I get enough signal for the GPS to figure out where I am at all!