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Phones generally use the WiFi database (plus cell tower info) to bootstrap GPS startup, but that's not useful for fine positioning.




AGPS is designed to give a quicker Time-To-First-Fix (TTFF) but the accuracy is unchanged.

The application here (driving) constrains the solution to 2D (i.e. known altitude from the map), and hence can since that variable is known quite accurately it can improve the accuracy of the other variables.




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