Help Weird issue with GPS and using Wifi/Networks for location

[Tangent]

For the last few days I've been having an odd issue. I'd look at my phone while I was at work in City A and my weather widget would tell me I was in City B. Opening Google maps would show me in City B and not just a random location, but the office I sometimes work at out there. Once it gets a GPS lock it shows my correct location. I think I've figured out why though. City B's office has had a guest WiFi network for a while and City A's office has only just now gotten one set up. The problem is they've got the same name. I'm guessing that while my phone is not actively using GPS, it's remember "hey, last time I was connected to the WiFi network called Work_Guest I was in City B".

I like using the GPS, WiFi, and mobile networks option for location services to reduce battery usage by the GPS, but this inaccuracy is making it problematic. Is there any way I can force it to just ignore that specific network?

 

[mikedt]

WiFi location can be hopelessly inaccurate sometimes. Like having me in Hong Kong or Moscow, when in fact I'm in Inner Mongolia, PRC. Someone else posted a few weeks ago, they're in New Zealand, but WiFi location had them as being somewhere in Russia. GPS, once it's got a fix, should always be accurate.

 

[EarlyMon]

Try a different weather widget.

"Transparent clock & weather" gives more control over locations than most built-in widgets.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droid27.transparentclockweather

If that works for you, the same dev has other themes and widgets if you don't like that one.