Comment 6 for bug 1481240

The scopes shell plugin does cache the GeoIP location, yes. It also has a timeout, and is refreshed periodically.

As soon as your device acquires a proper GPS lock, however, the scopes shell plugin immediately prefers the true GPS lock.

However, the location service does not provide any high level location information (country, region, city), only numerical information(latitude, longitude, altitude), so GeoIP is the only way we can it. This means that if a scope asks for your city, it can only be as accurate as your GeoIP information.

Really I'd like to see the location service providing high level location information, too. But last time I raised this, the idea was resisted.