Incorrect countrycode,and posistion being returned by Geolocator.GetGeopositionAsync() function.

Question

Hi Everyone
We are facing an issue in retrieval of position of a user from the windows 8 modern app. Though my pc is physically located in India, the following code is returning US.
    Geolocator geo
= new Geolocator();
                                CancellationTokenSource cts
= new CancellationTokenSource();
                                CancellationToken token
= cts.Token;
                                Geoposition pos
= await geo.GetGeopositionAsync();
                                string country
= pos.CivicAddress.Country.ToString().ToLower();
                                                     double Latitude
= pos.Coordinate.Latitude;
                              double Longitude
= pos.Coordinate.Longitude;
What we were able to confirm is the country, co-ordinates being returned is actually not based on the actual physical location,
but the one available in 'Location' of 'Region' in Control Panel. Is this expected behaviour of GetGeopositionAsync()?
Any possible way to avoid this problem, and retrieve the actual physical position of the user/device?
Another weird thing is that
System.Device.Location.GeoCoordinateWatcher(),
 which is supported in console applications is fact returning the actual physical location. The code in the console app is as below.
            var watcher
= new System.Device.Location.GeoCoordinateWatcher(); 
            watcher.TryStart(false, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(100000)); string status
= ""; 
            GeoCoordinate coord
= watcher.Position.Location; 
            if (coord.IsUnknown
!= true) 
                Console.WriteLine(String.Format("Received
GPS location: {0}, {1}", coord.Latitude, coord.Longitude)); 
Any insights on to why this difference between the two functions?
From what I've read, they both are supposed to be similar.

Answer 1

I'll ask about this.
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