Map is unable to show my current location

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Map is unable to show my current location

The map provided with the iMac (purchased in Nov-2013), is unable to show my current location. It is asking to turn the Wifi on and then failing to specify or if at all specifying, is not very clear to me. For that reason, getting direction to a place is also not working. Is there any wrong with my settings? Moreover, google map appears to me more varsatile and dynamic -- is it true? I am a newcomer to mac platform and hence these quaries.

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), 21.5" with 2.7 GHz

Posted on Dec 28, 2013 6:34 AM

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Barney-15E

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Dec 28, 2013 7:14 AM in response to cauger61

Your iMac (well, any Mac) does not have a GPS. To determine location it matches the available WiFi SSIDs with a database of the base station locations. If the wireless access points that your iMac is receiving are not in the database, it deosn't know where it is.

This article talks primarily about iOS, but it is the same database that is used by OS X to locate you Mac.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4995?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Also, take a look at this thread. It doesn't appear there is positive confirmation that it works, but worth a try:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4370143?start=15&tstart=0

When Apple started this, I had submitted my router location to the SkyHook system which they were using, but everyone says they no longer use it.

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