A bug in Pokémon GO may be affecting the accuracy of your GPS
Are you still playing Pokémon GO? If your walks with this Nintendo entertainment continue, it is possible that the rest of the applications are losing precision. And it is that a user of Reddit has discovered a small bug in the game created by Niantic that could affect the GPS of the terminal. Specifically to its precision, drawing with a fat line the trajectory and routes that you take, instead of functioning as a precise location system.
Trainers Pokémon More observers will have noticed by now that this game is not very snappy or precise during use. It is even known that, in order to get more distance traveled to open eggs Pokémon, it is best to walk in a straight line. And it is that the game measures the distance in a straight line between points that it takes as a reference from time to time, skipping meters when turning a corner and other similar situations. The curious thing is that the bug would be taking control of the GPS of the mobile and also affecting other applications of the terminal.
Cameocoder is the user of Reddit, the well-known forum of the Internet, which has sounded the alarm. Reported a bug that affects GPS accuracy while Pokémon GO is running in the backgroundA fact that he realized when using his application to measure races while, in the background, Pokémon GO was still active. The images show in detail how the circuit on the left shows turns and a more precise route in this type of applications race. However, on the right, we see the same circuit, but simplified. And it seems to have been done in straight line Something unrealistic unless running cross country.
The serious thing about this issue is not that Pokémon GO does not faithfully record the user's location at every step, but thataffects the measurement of other applications That is, the operation of the GPS itself Something that it can alter the data of other applications in which it does seek to be really precise and accurately mark a distance traveled or a specific location in which it has been.
Now, Cameocoder has also indicated, in his topic of Reddit , that this failure could only be verified in his Nexus 5, without being able to reproduce it in the same way on other devices. Therefore, it is possible that it is a lesser evil and that only a small part of Pokémon trainers are seeing the GPS accuracy of their mobiles compromised while capturing these beings.
With all this, it seems that Pokémon GO still has a long way to go to improve and expand its functions. And it is that, if he did not, he would be mortally wounded, bleeding to death in terms of the number of discharges and active trainers. Meanwhile, we are still waiting for your latest update to live the adventure with a friend Pokémon
