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> I'm unable to 'fix' my data set here.

Try latitude -> location history -> menu button -> change home location.

Whoa, thanks.

I wasn't able to follow your instructions (I tried finding a setting like that on my mobile or the tablet, but failed), but the location history (that clicked!) website's dashboard allowed me to redefine 'home'.

you can also occasionally correct Google now via the non-obvious settings icon in the card, but i'm hoping they'll allow for more explicit settings in future. it's technically impressive that they can reasonably intuit locations and so on, but i'd be happy to make it easy for them by setting it myself.

It's not technically impressive and odd they would be getting it wrong. They know where your hits are coming from and the WiFi/GPS information on mobile. If a Maps app can it get right 100% of the time why can't Google ?

GPS location is, agreed, not technically impressive. but successfully leveraging location history alongside of real time traffic data to intuit home and work addresses and the drive times between them with zero user input and an acceptably high level of accuracy seems somewhat impressive here.

Hmm.. Those settings on the cards seem (so far, as far as I can tell, insert disclaimer about being new to the tablet and all) only affect the parameters of this _type_ of card. So I can say when ('before commute' and other opaque event like names) a card should show up, how important the content is .. but I haven't found any setting in Google Now that actually allows me to change the content (remove that listed location, add a different one, change my home address..), the data itself.

> I wasn't able to follow your instructions

Sorry if they're off, apparently it's different on phone then tablet and I extrapolated from what I've heard. On phones, usually 'location history' is a drop-down menu in maps (the upper left button that says 'maps' is actually a drop-down).

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