My iPad Is Freaking Me Out!

[BabyNeedsANewPairO'Shoes]

OK, this is weird.
I've just started back into metal detecting and have only been out once due to weather. Springfield MO is full of small parks, school playgrounds and tot lots that I intend to search regularly.

So today I went out on an errand out of town, not MDing, something else. I took my iPad and it had the Google Maps app running. When I get to my destination I had a few minutes to wait for the person I was meeting so I pull out my iPad and there on the screen was the sattelite view of my neighborhood and there was a place mark on a park near my home.
And in the upper left part of the screen under the search box was a message. It read:

"Lost pin near George Washington Carver Park."

I'm like, WTF? I poke at the message box but it doesn't open to anything. I have no idea where it came from and it's gone now. There is no message history of any kind.

So my iPad now knows I metal detect and is offering suggestions where to go look

I am absolutely baffled.

 

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[wkrp43]

WOW!

 

[cudamark]

Did you sign up for LostMyStuff.com? I think you can get alerts when something is lost in your area. Either way, I think I'd to hunting around George Washington Carver Park!

 

[CoilyGirl]

OK, this is weird. I've just started back into metal detecting and have only been out once due to weather. Springfield MO is full of small parks, school playgrounds and tot lots that I intend to search regularly. So today I went out on an errand out of town, not MDing, something else. I took my iPad and it had the Google Maps app running. When I get to my destination I had a few minutes to wait for the person I was meeting so I pull out my iPad and there on the screen was the sattelite view of my neighborhood and there was a place mark on a park near my home. And in the upper left part of the screen under the search box was a message. It read: "Lost pin near George Washington Carver Park." I'm like, WTF? I poke at the message box but it doesn't open to anything. I have no idea where it came from and it's gone now. There is no message history of any kind. So my iPad now knows I metal detect and is offering suggestions where to go look I am absolutely baffled.

Wonder if it could be related to geocaching? Unless you turn location services off on your iPad it is constantly tracking where you are.

 

[SusanMN]

I've had my Ipad for three years and never had that happen. You can go into your settings though and see which apps can push alerts to you.

 

[dbag1969]

Someone probably pinned/tagged it to share the location of lost item information with someone so they could help them find the lost item and then removed it as soon as the recipient got the location and gps coords. Most likely it was directed to someone they knew with a metal detector that could help them recover their item and would explain why it was taken down so quickly. Just my 2 cents.

 

[BabyNeedsANewPairO'Shoes]

Did you sign up for LostMyStuff.com? I think you can get alerts when something is lost in your area. Either way, I think I'd to hunting around George Washington Carver Park!

In the time since I posted this thread, I've searched the internet for any possible app or web site that could possibly cause this to happen. No, I have not signed up at any of the lost stuff web sites, and I was unable to find any site that claimed to cause a notification pushed to Google Maps without looking for it.

I know this happened, and I'm not saying that there isn't a rational explanation, but I am still baffled. I didn't even know about the lost stuff web sites until after this happened.

I wonder if this was the result of some sort of Beta testing part of the last IOS upgrade that hasn't been released yet? I'm just grasping at straws about this.

But yes, I will search GWC Park at my earliest opportunity!

 

[BabyNeedsANewPairO'Shoes]

Someone probably pinned/tagged it to share the location of lost item information with someone so they could help them find the lost item and then removed it as soon as the recipient got the location and gps coords. Most likely it was directed to someone they knew with a metal detector that could help them recover their item and would explain why it was taken down so quickly. Just my 2 cents.

Thanks, dbag...yes, that's probably right. Still at a loss though as to why It came up not only as a place mark but also as a message

 

[BabyNeedsANewPairO'Shoes]

Wonder if it could be related to geocaching? Unless you turn location services off on your iPad it is constantly tracking where you are.

Perhaps, CoilyGirl, and I do not turn my location services off...but I don't have any apps that I know of that push lost item info into Google Maps in a place mark and a message. I was hoping that someone here might have seen the same kind of thing. Nothing on an internet search came up.
Just one of those things, I guess...kind of like Roswell.
Thanks!

 

[silverwing]

My phone does that occasionally on Google maps. 'Pin' being that little upside down tear drop they use to show locations on the map. I don't know how the program loses a location on a map, but there you go.

That said... I'd probably still check out the park...