Location services Always on or when in use?

I have an iPhone 5S running OS 8.3.1
Trying to learn as much about using Siri and the services as I can to be able to maximize my use. What I ultimately want to know is. How does Siri know where I am if the location service is set to, "when in use" for maps, and for find my friends, instead of always?
This came about when setting reminders up for, "remind me when I leave home to take out dog." for instance, or "remind me when I get to Hy-Vee to get Dr. Pepper". If the map is not always on, how does Siri know where I am? Is this going to fail? or not work? Do I need to leave the map on all the time?
Thanks

Location services gives the current location to the app that requests it.
The process looks like this... independently of the map.
Siri launches and requests location, GPS chip processes location data from the cell tower and wifi networks.
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I've read lots of things that say if you want to save battery power, disabled "Location Services".
I find it annoying that on the odd occasion that I want to use Location Services, say, to find an ATM near where I am, I have to go into settings and enable it, and then go back into the app I tried to use, and go and enter my search again, etc.
Now, I understand that if my phone is actually trying to find my location, that is should use some power.
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It does not use extra power to have Location Services enabled if you're not using the app.
I leave Location Services on all the time and I have decent battery life.
I agree that having location services on doesn't use battery unless an app is using it. Now none of us can say for sure about that since we don't know the software/hardware and how they talk/work and as the other poster said, powers the GPS chip. Just because the service is on, for all we know the OS only powers on the chip then "when needed"
From looking at the "Optimize Your Settings" from http://www.apple.com/batteries/iphone.html They say:
Minimize use of location services: Applications that actively use location services such as Maps may reduce battery life. To disable location services, go to Settings > General > Location Services or use location services only when needed.
While for WiFi/Bluetooth, etc they say turn off, not just minimize use of "applications" that use it. That is because WiFi and Bluetooth have to actively beacon/probe while the GPS only has to do something when requested.
Just my two cents though.
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I noticed that all of a sudden the location icon was on when all my apps were closed. I went through my apps turning off location services individually trying to find the culprit. At first it was Siri because as I went through the location icon went away when I turned Siri's off. I searched for some solutions in the Apple forum and found that I needed to turn location services off, reboot phone, and turn services back on. Well when my phone turned back on the locations icon was back! So I went through the rest of my my apps and moved on to "system services." As I turned off "traffic" the icon went away again. I'm wondering why all of a sudden the location icon is on with traffic and Siri when they were closed? These are settings that I didn't recently change. Siri and traffic have had location services on for as long as I can remember but are all of a sudden running location services in the background. Is this a known bug? What can I do to fix this?
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