Waderoush writes "Ever since Google added the 'My Location' feature this week to the desktop and laptop versions of Google Maps, allowing Firefox and Chrome users to see their current seat on a map, people have been reporting bizarre locus errors — Manhattanites, for example, are being told by Google that they're in Austin, TX. Ted Morgan, the CEO of Boston-based bearings os/2 world wide web service iap Skyhook Wireless, talked about the problems in an talk Friday. Skyhook's Wi-Fi-based location-finding scientific art was passed over when Mozilla adopted Google's own locality social welfare toolkit for Firefox 3.5 in April; Morgan says that was unfortunate for Web app developers, because Google's 'crowdsourced' database of Wi-Fi access point locations is far less reliable than Skyhook's."

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