To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

Well bully for you.

First train? English.
First commercial train service? Manchester to Liverpool.
First car? German.
First TV? Invented by a Scotsman.
First TV broadcast service? English.
First freeway/motorway/autobahn? German.
First satellite? Russian.
First man in space? Russian.
First man to orbit the Earth? Russian.
First woman in space? Russian.
First moon rover? Russian.
First space walk? Russian.
First space station? Russian. (The ISS has a Salyut-derived core)
First probe to land on another planet? Russian.
Countless records broken for long duration stays in orbit? Russian.
Inventor of the jet engine? English.
Home of first electronic computer? Manchester, England.
First supersonic airliner? Anglo-French.
Inventor of the World Wide Web? An Englishman working in Switzerland.

... preventing women from accessing contraception, preventing consenting adults from getting married if it offends your religious sensibilities, giving teacher the right to teach nonsense in science class...

You seriously think the Dems are the only people who can multitask?

I see you and I raise you. Before I defected to a credit union, any time I made a dreaded call to Bank of America customer service I typically had to spend over an hour on the phone with them. Every time I spoke to someone new I had to start at the top, beginning with identifying myself and proving that I was who I said I was. On one call I got passed around five departments (one of them twice) because nobody had a fucking clue who was doing what and who could help me.

Oh and my local DMV works with efficiency that would put any bank to shame. In and out in 15 minutes without an appointment, 5 minutes with an appointment, and most services available online and eliminating the need to go into the office. Not bad for a service that only ten years ago was a half-day ordeal for even trivial transactions.

Bottom line: there are efficient private businesses and inefficient private businesses. There are efficient government departments and inefficient government departments.

Well then you're very silly.

If this was a corporation creating mobile apps to make information more accessible there would be no controversy about it. But as soon as the government applies the same modernizing technology the anti-government knee-jerkers just can't help themselves but get another little dig in.

PS, this interweb thing you're posting on? Government invented that.

Yeah. If only we could have the same government that a small chain of pre-industrial agrarian settlements had on the East coast a few centuries back. That'd work so much better in today's world, right?

I give up. What do they use?

Another source of data as well as triangulating based on towers, and calculating vector based on checkins would be timing advance.
I have no idea if that is logged, but if it is, that narrows your position down to half a kilometre.