问题
Can anyone confirm how Significant Location Change works?
- movement is calculated when the iPhones cell receiver swaps from one cell tower to another as the user moves around? 
- movement is calculated by triangulating between "visible" cell towers to best calculate the users position? 
- movement is calculated by triangulation between "visible" cell towers based on the settings associated with desiredAccuracy? 
回答1:
Number 1 is the right answer. This is the reason, those updates come not very often.
回答2:
Don't rely on it working in a specific way. If the way it works isn't documented, you should be open to changes in that respect.
来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5885293/hows-does-significant-location-change-work