How would you be able to enforce a bounding box with an offline copy of the database? Even if you *could* enforce it, it wouldn't take long to search over the entire earth with a script.
On 2014-07-09 10:08, [email protected] wrote: > > > On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 11:00:34 PM UTC+2, Kevin Everets wrote: >>> This would require a user to know their approximate location in order to >> >> look up their location based on nearby WiFi networks. An approximate >> >> location could be obtained using cell tower data. >> >> >> >> As discussed previously, it would not require an approximate location, >> >> though that could be used as additional (optional) data. The hash of a few >> >> WiFi BSSIDs would be enough to discern approximate location, with more >> >> BSSIDs increasing confidence. >> >> >> >> Bounding boxes would not be required. > > I was not referring to Sam's original proposal, but to the one I had made a > paragraph earlier in my post. The proposal I made uses a hash of the BSSID > and its approximate (i.e. rounded) location as a lookup key and returns > complete latitude and longitude. > > Unlike other proposals, which require multiple access points to determine a > location, using a hash dependent on approximate location would work even with > just a single BSSID (and thus in areas with scarce coverage) but constrain > searches to a bounding box. > _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation
