New Jersey Kayaking

I've been fooling around with GPS, and I've found out a few things:

Location on web browsers is very inaccurate. This is because web browsers all estimate your location by network sniffing. Even if real GPS is available, it is ignored. Every browser I have tested, on every platform, is basically useless. In Chrome on Android, I actually appear to be teleporting around, which is fun. On Linux, Chrome thinks I live in a lake. Luxury.

If you attempt to use real GPS with Google Earth on a PC, it will crash. This is typical Google bad programming - idiots with PhDs. I have yet to find a mapping app that will connect with my USB GPS dongle, which is working perfectly. But at least the other apps I have tried didn't self-combust at the horror of GPS like Google Earth does. (Google Earth does work better on Android with real GPS.)

So except for the grossest estimation of where you are, don't use a web browser to navigate, use a proper mapping program. On Android, I use OsmAnd+, which is just a few bucks and works pretty well once you figure out where the programmer hid all the settings. Don't bother trying to remember them, they move around with every new release; last time the GPS functions became a plugin you had to install separately. This is just typical horrible Android user interface design, another of Google's masterpieces. They shouldn't be allowed near computers.

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Update:

Browser GPS is so comically bad that I turned it off. That way you don't get that annoying and slightly scary "enable location" prompt, except on this post.