Could the map show a friend wrong location?

[Scasi Stine]

May the map show a friend in a place where he is not? Is it a known issue?

[Madelaine McMasters]

Hi Scasi,

I've never heard of such an issue. I could imagine the map being a bit "behind" the movements of an avatar, showing where they were a few moments ago, not where they are now. But it seems unlikely the map would report an entirely wrong location.

That said, there's a lot of weird SL behavior that you'd think unlikely. Clearly SL doesn't care what we think.

[Rolig Loon]

No, except that some viewers will misreport an avatar's altitude, so that a person appears to be very close to you when he is in fact far above you.

[Innula Zenovka]

I've never heard of it, though that doesn't mean it couldn't happen -- I don't often ask my friends who let me map them where they are, after all, and neither do I use the map to tp to them very frequently.

Certainly I know SL sometimes reports people as being offline when they're online and vice versa, so I wouldn't think it impossible it sometimes fails to update their map position when they TP to a new location.