the WiFi database is available from multiple sources. you can download Navizon www.navizon.com to your iPhone or WinMobile phone and recognize you position immediately using wifi and cell tower triangulation databases.
On Feb 8, 6:30 am, Skip <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone think the wifi based location determination actually > works? I guess I imagine that it would work like this. In the office > where I work, there are a couple of wireless networks. And once I go > inside the building with my phone,the GPS quality goes to crap since > it is indoors--no surprise there. It can literally be off by BLOCKS, > perhaps a half mile or more after I've been inside for a while. I > would like to think that the phone would somehow know that, OK, I > don't have a decent GPS signal, so let's see if I can get a decent > wifi location. Sure, it's not going to tell me what room in the > building I am in, which GPS would be able to do if there wasn't a roof > on the building, but I am OK with that. I just want the locale app to > know what building I am in. So now I have to make circles of about a > half mile in radius (a mile in diameter) to be sure my location in > locale doesn't look like I've left and gone to the default profile, > because now once you go in a building, your accuracy goes down and you > start hopping all over the map. > > So, where does the Wifi database live? How can I test it to see how > accurate it is (both in meters and in completeness)? Can I add new > wifi access points to the database? How can I see, for instance, if my > home access point is in the database? What happens if I move and take > my access point with me? How do I update the database? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
