"Find my iphone" doesn't work properly

I'm having some real issues trying to find my IPhone that is in a specific location. It seems like it is totally whacking out bouncing back and forth from one location to another location 3 miles away then back to the original location. This is fairly consistent, however there are times when the GPS says it's in between locations. Then it will show the IPhone in a lake 600 feet away from where it was originally tracked.
I can track the IPhone anywhere else and it is very accurate except this particular location. It seems like the phone is moving and yet I'm not sure. There is commerce and power lines nearby. When I go to the second location away from all the junk it is consistent with the second location 3 miles away. Then when I move back to the initial location it jumps back. BTW, I did turn the WI-FI on and everything is set up correctly. What is going on???

i have had the same problem as all of the above. I have tried restoring on two machines, used two different cables, re-installed itunes on both. I have deleted every apple program and then re-installed it. I spoke to apple support yesterday who got me to create a new user on windows and login to that and it still is not working. I am going to tray a face to face with apple store to see if they cannot sort it out.

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