When I first saw the inaccuracy of the new maps triangulation feature I figured I’d never find much use for it. For instance, I couldn’t use it to get from my office home, since the range it gave for my office was so big. But yesterday it came handy a couple of times:

• I was on the train on the way to Portland and was able to figure out where I was on the route
• I was in Portland, which I don’t know super well, and was able to get the map centered in generally the right area, from which I was able to look for street signs.

Also, I noticed that if you use the triangulation twice in row, you’ll get different results. For instance, the error range was super huge one time, but I hit again and it narrowed down to only about a block size error range.