On Jul 10, 2014 4:41 AM, "Hanno Schlichting" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think that most desktop users still have stationary devices, and their home or office WiFi networks aren’t in any database. If we added them to our database, I fear we’d just end up with many unconnected islands of networks, but nothing to connect those. We’d need someone with a GPS capable device to capture at least one of the networks, to anchor it with a good position. But if we have someone stumbling in the neighborhood, than that person will also likely pick up most of the networks our desktop users have seen. > > That’s not to say there isn’t a value in this, but I think it’s not as big as you might imagine.
It might be worth experimenting. An issue I've seen with stumbling is that major routes get stumbled but minor ones often don't. Connecting some of these minor route islands through transitive WiFi connections might still provide a lot of value to those who are using non-GPS devices that are some distance from a stumbled route, bringing their accuracy from 10s of km to 100s of m. _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation
