Maps only locating with wifi not Edge

Using Wifi, Maps can pin point me down to a matter of yards... at a street address I lived in over a year ago! Using the Edge network I am not found at all and I understand that's a function of cell tower location. I can accept that and will try again when moving.
But any ideas where the Wifi side of it would be getting data on me over a year old and pin pointing me there?
I began to think perhaps the past year was all a dream and my iPhone was my only link to the real world with that dream... maybe I'll wake up soon.

On Wi-Fi, my system also localizes me to an address I used over a year ago. I do have the same base station as I did at that previous address.
I think it has something to do with Skyhook and how they localize your address by literally driving around and picking up hotspots and recording locations. They must still think that the signal given off by my wireless router is at my old address because they haven't rescanned over the past year.
And this strategy is useful how??

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