Interesting discussion 
A higher zoom level when you use the GPS on a "select from map" would help. We can consider that if the GPS is used to select a place, we will probably want to select a place very close to the location, or at least most of the time. For the moment the default zoom level needs the user to zoom in a lot before selecting the feature.
A filter based on distance would also help a lot :
QGIS uses yellow by default for selected items.