If this comes up on your cell phone just remember that if you do turn this on, not only you know where you are then but also anyone you might not want to know where you are(people you don't know that might harm you or your family) might know too now or eventually online. So, what I do is to only turn location services on on a cell phone or Ipad when I really need to know where I am if I am in new territory I'm not familiar with. (Of course you could always buy a map and never turn it on). Otherwise, I leave location services off. However, because of E911 all your photos likely will have the full GPS Location embedded in the data stream that the photo is composed of even with location services off on newer phones. So, if you publish a smartphone photo with this location embedded on the Internet somewhere, don't be surprised when someone breaks into your home and steals from you or harms you. Since it doesn't look like you can turn geotagging off on newer cell phones anymore it is not a good idea to publish photos taken where you or your family live or where you work online from your cell phone or any separate digital camera where geotagging is left on. However, if you are just traveling or hiking somewhere then that likely doesn't matter as long as you aren't publishing online photos of where you are this moment.
Also, even with location services off, even with your cell phone turned completely off, even with the battery out of your cellphone, your GPS location could still be known by someone if there is a capacitor built into the small motherboard of your phone for a couple of days or so if it powers the GPS locator.
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