It may instead be using "cell tower triangulation" to measure your distance from the nearest cellular network towers, or even doing a lookup from a database that maps wifi hotspots to GPS coordinates.

它或许通过最近的蜂窝塔或者是Wifi热点来测量你所在的位置。

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Assisted GPS can be one of two things, both of which which offload some work to internet servers and use cell-tower triangulation.

辅助GPS定位系统可能是以下两者之一，要么是将工作放到网络主机上去，要么使用 蜂窝基站三角网定位。

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When Hall disappeared in 1994, cell phone triangulation and other technologies commonly used in missing person cases today weren't available.

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Dark Reading covered a talk at SOURCE on tracking GSM cell phones using a variety of public data, cell tower triangulation, and voicemail hacking techniques.

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Apparently, the service makes use of cell-tower triangulation, and not GPS, to determine the users location, making it somewhat less accurate but far more widely available.

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