I tried using iOS maps and Google Maps to help guide me to destinations while walking. I found both pretty useless as they were always displaying my incorrect position.

A Chinese colleague said install Baidu maps and voila it immediately showed me in the correct place vs. say in middle of the Yangtze river in Chongqing.

Of course I can't use that app easily as I am not nearly fluent enough in Mandarin.

How do others handle this problem?