maps (ALL MAPS) won't show me my location ON THE COMPUTER...

GPS uses satellites to determine your position - it needs a specific chip in your device. Your iPhone has a GPS chip. Your mac does NOT, and neither have most windows pc, as far as I know (some may have, but not many).

Therefore your mac has to resort to other ways to try and determine your location.

As others have been explaining, it gleans information from surrounding wifi networks. If it can associate a location to these networks, it knows where you are, more or less. But that requires it knowing that such Wifi network is in such place. Absent that information, it cannot.

Have you tried connecting your mac to your iPhone's (or Android phone's) personal hotspot?

Does your iPhone show its location? What about your mac then?

What exact version of Ventura is the computer running ?

There was an Issue somewhere around Ventura 13.5 affecting Location Services that was fixed in newer versions of Ventura

About this Mac will provided that needed info.

Be sure Not to Include the Serial Number as that is Personal Info and will probably be removed by the Moderators

kali90 wrote:

nothing unusual about how I'm connected to wifi.. don't get what you're getting at..

I've tried at two different locations (several 100 miles apart from each other...)

thank you for your response..

I was explaining how Location Services gets your position using Wi-Fi access points. You don't have to get it. Your problem is your Mac isn't getting it.

For some reason, it is not triangulating your position from the know Wi-Fi Access Point database.

Your Mac doesn't have a GPS receiver. It doesn't have a cellular receiver. It has no integrated position capability. It relies on Apple's database of known Wi-Fi Access Points and the access points it sniffs around you.

Either you've been to two places with no known access points, or something in your Mac is preventing it from accessing that data.

when I go to https://www.geolocation.com/

it shows my IP address.. but I get an alert saying I need to enable location-sharing on the browser..

It pulls a location from the registration address of your public IP address.

Your actual location from Location Services has not been allowed to be used by your browser.

at any rate Location Services is turned on in System Settings...

Location Services can be enabled and not be able to triangulate your position.

kali90 wrote:

so what is Location Services on a computer if not GPS?

Location Services are the processes that manage the location information.

no, I don't get your explanation... are you saying it's NOT SUPPOSED to work on computers (does it work on yours?), or that it doesn't work in my computer because there's something wrong?

Location Services is working on your Mac. The actual location cannot be determined for some reason. It could be some problem on your Mac, but the most likely reason is that it cannot determine the location. I don’t know of any computer that has a GPS, GLONASS, or any other position receiver.

Apple has compiled a database of WiFi access point locations which macOS uses to determine location. With Wi-Fi enabled, it will look at signal strength of the WiFi access points around your Mac and uses the position information from the database to estimate the Mac’s position.

Do you have Wi-Fi enabled and connected?

Location Services can be turned on, but it still has to triangulate its position by identifying nearby Wi-Fi access points that have a known position in Apple’s database. If it cannot hear any AP’s that have known locations, it cannot determine the position.

It tells me that none of the WiFi access points around your Mac are known to Apple.

Since your iPhone has determined your location via cell tower triangulation or GPS, Apple’s database may eventually update the position of your WiFi router and the nearby WiFi access points.

At the risk of stating the obvious: did you check in System Settings->Privacy & Security that Maps has access to Location Services?

Two Test if you would

1- On the Find My Application

What does it show and how accurate is it ?

2 - Use https://www.geolocation.com/

What does it show and how accurate is it ?

In all cases on the 2 M2 and 1 M1 Computers running Sonoma 14.0 over Wifi connection, the location are fairly accurate

Though do not run a VPN connection either

Use Safari 17 in Sonoma and go to https://www.geolocation.com/

My Location shows my IP Address and also shows my location with it about 600 Meter Off from my actual and Physical Location

Suggest you follow along with the advise from @Barney-15E to simplified your issues

Too many people will confuse the issue

All yours Barney-15E 😎

When you launch the Application on the Computer it will triangulate your Location of the Computer

In my case below it has found my Laptop, My Mac mini and my iPhone

In this illustration - my Physical Location is about 3 meter OFF from what appear on the Map