Murena Maps sometimes doesn´t recognize correct GPS location

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Hello! I had several instances these past weeks where I got horribly lost, due to Murena Maps showing a random GPS location instead of the correct one, despite all settings being correct. Then, upon using the same app again a few hours laters - without having made any changes to the settings - it once again correctly identified the right GPS location.

I am not able to reproduce the error, yet it seems to happen mostly in the hours after having experimented with the GPS settings (Expose/Hide Geolocation). However, one would assume that immediately after updating the settings to “Show real geolocation/GPS on”, Murena Maps would be able to correctly use my real location, not spend the next couple of hours still showing random locations in other countries. Yet, this seems to be the pattern… a hidden internal time delay of updating GPS settings. In case relevant to mention: I use Fairphone 6 x Murena 3.5

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In case this ticket ends up being forwarded to a developer within the Murena 3.5 team working on Murena Maps.

(1) It is confusing that the “Geolocation exposed”-setting is located exclusively within the “Advanced Privacy”-menu; and not (also) within the “Location”-menu.

(2) One would assume that “Murena Maps” would automatically alert users trying to schedule a route with a random GPS, and nudge them to temporarily expose their real location instead. Instead, users are left desperately searching through advanced settings to find the “Geolocation exposed”-setting

(3) The application is cluttered with way too many features people rarely use, like “Roadblocks, GPC Tracks,Video Logs, Lat/Long”, while things people actually want to use like “Show most recent searches” can barely be accessed, due to irrelevant features taking up too much space. It would be helpful if you´d let a Minimalistic UX Designer clean up the app a bit.

PS: In case you have any follow-up questions, feel free to reach out. I work in Product Design, and would be delighted to give feedback on UX issues.

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Hi @hester welcome to the /e/ users forum.

murena-maps is a new product in testing and I think in your build you will be using “old product” Maps aka during changover legacy-maps. This product is derived from Magic Earth.

Please can you read a few recent posts with hashtag maps, that way we won’t go round in circles talking at cross purposes.

From personal experience I would say that assumption to be over optimistic. Use of Hide my Location will require learning.

gps and location can be quite sensitive.

On the subject of training GPS on a degoogled phone I gave this answer recently GPS Test on Sony Xperia - #2 by aibd

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This is a bit ambiguous at the moment because /e/OS is transitioning to a new Maps App. It is not preinstalled in /e/OS as of 3.7.x, but it will be in the upcoming 4.0, and a number of users installed it themselves already.

Are you using the old Magic Earth “Maps”, or already the new Murena “Maps”?
If you are unsure, please state so or post a screenshot. (If you would be unsure, it most probably would be the old App.)

Please update to /e/OS 4.0 on June 11 or later, and then have a look at things again.
You could also update to the current version 3.7.x, which the updater should offer to you, and see whether your issues persist, but in case they do, all development effort now goes into 4.0 anyway.

That’s not how it works. There’s no ticket by posting in the forum, and there’s a very low chance a developer will get to see this. If developer involvement is important to you, please report an issue … Report an issue

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