Various techniques are provided which may be implemented as methods, apparatuses and articles of manufacture for use by a mobile device or one or more computing devices to provide for or otherwise support motion state based mobile device positioning. In an example, a method may be implemented at a computing device to obtain a set of grid points corresponding to an electronic map representative of a particular environment, subdivide the set of grid points to identify two or more subsets of grid points for use in position estimation by a mobile device based, at least in part, on two or more motion states corresponding to the mobile device, and communicate at least one of the two or more subsets of grid points between the computing device and the mobile device.