Re: CoreLocation clone

[Maxthon Chan]

And by what I say as crowd-sourcing, I mean ask users that are willing to share 
for information. What we are asking for here is several numbers: AP BSSID, 
transmission power, and its geological location (latitude and longitude, as 
well as height). The request is done by the device uploading a list of BSSIDs 
received and its signal strength, hence BSSID never leaves our servers, and 
thus privacy issue avoided.

在 2013-6-4，上午5:38，Ivan Vučica <address@hidden> 写道：

> I remember Nikolaus mentioning some work on CoreLocation in MySTEP:
>  http://www.quantum-step.com/download/sources/mystep/corelocation/
> 
> From what I can tell, it's using GPS, and is implemented as client code in 
> the framework, and the code actually talking to GTA04's hardware inside a 
> daemon.
> 
> Regarding WiFi -- yes, at least iOS and OS X use wifi to do geolocation. 
> There's several commercial outfits that provide this service to third 
> parties; to my knowledge, Apple used to use SkyLink Wireless in iPhone 2G era 
> while rolling out their own service. 
> 
> Google has their own service they use in at least Android, and I suspect also 
> in Chrome; collecting data for it during capturing StreetView images got them 
> in trouble in at least Germany. 
> 
> Google's API is called Google Maps Geolocation API, and it's a commercial 
> offering.
>    https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/business/geolocation/
> "If you do not have a Maps API for Business agreement covering the 
> Geolocation API, you may use a free quota of 100 requests per day for testing 
> and development only."
> 
> I don't think that's usable in our case, especially since every application 
> should include a distinct API key.
> 
> Unless there are free wifi hotspot databases out there, I don't think this 
> can be done any other way except how Nikolaus did it: by reading information 
> from an external GPS device.
> 
> On 3. 6. 2013., at 22:01, David Wetzel <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Guys,
>> 
>> it could use the information from the wireless networks.
>> The round button on http://maps.google.com locates me on about 10m.
>> 
>> Greetings from Toronto
>> 
>> David Wetzel
>> 
>> On 3 Jun 2013, at 15:57, Gregory Casamento <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> I wouldn't say it's useless on computers.   On computers I'm pretty sure it 
>>> uses IP address geolocation.
>> 
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