My location of my ipad is wrong. How do I change my location?

MY location of my ipad is wrong, how do I get the correct location?

The primary way a wifi node gets into any location database (Google's, Skyhook's, Apple's) is by wardriving.  The database owners have cars (or other vehicles - google uses cyclists in parts of Europe) that drive around, noting wifi node hardware addresses and recording the GPS location based on the peak signal strength recorded for each node.
If a residential customer buys a new router, or moves a known one, the location information will not get updated until it is redected by a a scanner re-sampling that area.  Once it is detected, the infomration may migrate to other databases, as the various companies buy and sell their wifi location information to help fill out their databases.
If you live in a population dense area, the information may make it into the database fairly quickly, but if you live in a population sparse or rural area, it may take much longer.
When I moved from one state to another a few years ago, it took about 4 months before my home location was being reported correctly (up until then, it indicated I was at my old location, some 400 miles away).
Neither Google nor Apple allow user submissions to their location based services, but you still can submit an entry to SkyHook - http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/submit_ap.php.  Since reportedly both Google and Apple still buy content from Skyhook, you could put your info in there and see if that helps speed up the migration of the info into Apple's own database services.

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