Thanks for the responses. tl/dr: For my house, the issue is probably the requirement of three access points.
When scanning from my home I currently have 3 wifi access points visible, 5 scanned. One of the three appears to be the phone itself, even though I have the hotspot turned off. (I've never run MozStumbler while the phone was a hotspot.) The other two are access points in my house. This is probably typical in this area, houses are far enough apart that seeing a good connection to a network from a neighbor is unusual. Assuming the phone's hotspot has been identified as mobile, that means only two useful access points are visible. Requiring three access points will make the service unusable for a large potion of the country. Why are three access points required? Currently the phone GPS is showing a location about 100 meters east of my house, but the location button shows a location about 1000 meters north. I've scanned driving away from my house to the north and south (and toward from both directions). I've headed south more often, so any bias in the locations of my house wifi should be toward the south. I am using MozStumbler version 0.17. _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation
