1Changing my location on Maps app

Hello fellow iPeople,
I have a 1st gen. iPod touch, downloaded the new s-ware update to 2.1, got some apps from the store and now have a question/problem. Under the Maps app, google maps shows my location to be somewhere in North East Illinois, however I live in central Florida. I would like to be able to change my default location so my iPod knows where I live. I have my address saved in contacts, and it is also mapped, but whenever i touch the crosshairs to go back to my location, i go right back to Illinois. Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Message was edited by: Blue_Dragon

Touching the cross hairs makes the iPod use WiFi to find your location.
If the WiFi network you are connected to is incorrectly registered with SkyHook (i.e. the wrong location has been entered with skyhook for the WiFi router) then you will always be located there in maps.

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