What causes the find my iphone dot to change from a small dot to a large circle?

When I am at home or traveling the green dot is small and very accurate. When I am at work the dot gets really big and not accurate at all. Why does this happen?

RBarbato wrote:
When I am at home or traveling the green dot is small and very accurate. When I am at work the dot gets really big and not accurate at all. Why does this happen?
See your duplicate post here...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/22392418#22392418

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