Unusually effective Map app in iPod Touch

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
My first Gen iPod touch seems to know where I am when I'm using the Maps application even if I'm not connected to any wifi network. This happened to me in San Francisco once but I chalked it up to the prevalence of WiFi network there. But recently I was driving around Oxnard (not a place with great free and open wifi coverage) following directions on the map app I had set up ahead of time, and I found that the blue dot showing my position changed as I was driving around, showing my current location in real time.
How the heck does this happen? The thing doesn't have GPS AFAIK.

You might have come into an area that allowed your iPod to update your position. (It happens.)
No iPod has a built in GPS that I am aware of. That's an iPhone feature, because they have the 3G thing.
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