Why is Google maps rubbish at tracking?

[the-norseman]

Bluevanman said:

Explain my post above,my phone switches to airplane mode between 11pm and 7.30am.The phone didn't move from my home yet Google reckons I was walking to a retail park 2 miles away

Airplane mode turns of the sensors like GPS so the phone doesn't know where it is. Who the hell puts their phone on airplane mode over night as well? literally put it on silent.

[Griffith4ever]

Bluevanman said:

Griffith4ever said:

Its not " rubbish" , it's just not meant to do what you think it's meant to do.

Explain my post above,my phone switches to airplane mode between 11pm and 7.30am.The phone didn't move from my home yet Google reckons I was walking to a retail park 2 miles away

No, go and research it yourself. Google timeline is not meant to be accurate - in fact if it was I'd turn it off! It's more for seeing which towns/countries you've been in, and often, it's guessing your location with data that is NOT GPS.