If you hover over it, it pops up saying "Your location." Now: if my Android is ON, even though I have the GPS "Location" turned OFF, the desktop Google maps page lights up my very house on the map. However if I log out of google, it doesn't. And, very interesting, if I turn off my phone, now the desktop cannot determine my physical
Just remember that it's not just Google Maps that wants your location data - even the likes of Google Play and Google Chrome want to know where you are to show location-aware results (dig into the On February 15th, 2018, Redditor LANA_WHAT_DangerZone posted that "Google Wants to Know Your Location is the January 2018 Meme of the Month." The post (shown below) received more tahn 4,400 points (87% upvoted) and 215 comments in less than 24 hours. To delete your location data on mobile, open Google Maps, tap the hamburger menu on the top-left and select Your timeline. He believes tech corporations are bad, but you might as well know how Google simply expect you will have your mobile with you most of the time. They take the location data from your phone and assume the location of your current desktop session is the same. I proved this by RDPing into my Windows machine at home from work and checking Google maps remotely. It show my location as the same as Chrome on Linux at work. If you want to let Google know the location of your site, simply log in to the Google Webmaster Tools component of Google Webmaster Central. Access the Tools tab, then choose Set Geographic Target.
Open Google Maps on your phone or tablet. It's the map icon with a "G" at its top-left corner, and you'll find it on one of the home screens (iPhone/iPad) or in the app drawer (Android). If you haven't enabled Location Services, follow the on-screen instructions to do so when prompted.
In spite of this, a Google spokesperson told WIRED that "we make sure Location History users know that when they disable the product, we continue to use location to improve the Google experience
" Click the checkbox for "Enable Location Services" so it is checked and turns blue. This allows apps and programs on your Mac to access your location which will allow you find your location on the Google Maps website. If your web browser is listed in the window on the right, make sure the checkbox is checked for your web browser as well.
However if your browser is configured to use any of the alternate location sources then your actual location may be revealed to web services. Most commonly your WiFi network information will be used as there are large databases which map WIFI networks to a geographic location (usually created by cars with GPS & WIFI e.g. Google Street View cars). Open Google Maps on your phone or tablet. It's the map icon with a "G" at its top-left corner, and you'll find it on one of the home screens (iPhone/iPad) or in the app drawer (Android). If you haven't enabled Location Services, follow the on-screen instructions to do so when prompted. In laymen terms…. they use a database and look you up ! There are databases that contains all the IP addresses and to which ISP company controls that IP. In the records dept of those companies if they are an ISP there is an address associated with On my computer it shows my location in google maps as roughly 10km away from my physical location (i assume that is where the last visible node from my ISP is located). It could be that it's getting info from my phone, that sounds sensible.