dropping Map pins close toether

[Doug Lass]

Well, this is aggravating. I'm trying to use my iPhone to help me log locations of items. Let's suppose I'm trying to log the locations of manhole covers, OK. I walk down the street over to a manhole cover, go into Apple Maps, hit "Mark my Location", a pin is dropped, and I throw that pin in my "Manhole Cover" Guide (which is really a folder). I walk over to another one, and do the same. Now I have two pins in my "Manhole Cover" Guide. But if I walk over to one that is one twenty yards or less away from the last one, I can drop a pin there, but it REFUSES to allow me to add it to the Guide. That is, pins you save have to be separated by a goodly distance in order to be saveable in Guides. This is NUTS. Why should my iPhone care how close those pins are to each other? Can others reproduce this? These pins are far enough apart that their locations ought to be distinguishable. If there are two manhole covers right next to each other, I can't log their locations independently. I can only mark one, and say in the title that, eh, there are really two near here.

 

[now i see it]

Maps app uses GPS and GPS is only accurate to maybe 50-100 feet on a good day with plenty of satellites in view and no obstructions. That’s with a Garmin handheld GPS.
I suspect that the iphone and iPhone maps app is less precise.

 

[Doug Lass]

That's a fair point, but I can walk around looking at the GPS on my iPhone, and I can see locations changing as I move even a few feet. But we're not talking about accuracy. My iPhone shouldn't be making that decision for me, about how accurate a position is. It should be logging any position I tell it to log.