How does Google Maps know my current location?

Google Maps knows my current location when I am looking getting directions. How does it know that?How does Google Maps know my current location?
Because of your ip address
Mobile phones with a gps can report your location just about down to the exact address, otherwise your IP address indicates your service provider, which can be looked up in somewhat location databases, some report my location to be 20 miles south, others 25 miles west of my actual location.



Google search also checks the location setting on the left column of the search window, you can search and get local results of other cities if you want.How does Google Maps know my current location?
They use technology developed by Skyhook which triangulates between WiFi access points to determine the location of the MAC address of your device. They can achieve a 20 to 30 meter accuracy in most areas and close to 100% accuracy in a city or large town.

Ignore the conspiracy theorists and the IP address tracking nutters who are patently clueless about such things.How does Google Maps know my current location?
Because everything you use has a way to track the device. Your phone has gps tracking, your computer had it's own ip address and may have gps and/ or wifi. Your computers ip address is set up when you set up your computer, that's how people can tell if you've sent an email from home or your office. Gps uses satellite tracking and wifi uses sieves. Google, facebook, twitter, etc are all set up to use different types of tracking devices permanently installed on your devices to know exactly where you are.
It analyzes your Wi-Fi access points and your computer's IP address and that way it can determine your current location.
It will know any address that's listed in the phone book. If it's been listed in the book long enough.
It got that from your Ip address. Everything online has an Ip address and we have run out of the IPV4 addresses, too bad cox and verizon do not support IPv6, yet
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