Some recent news from Mozilla's Geolocation projects, including the
Mozilla Location Service (MLS):
* The new Firefox OS phones released in India, the Intex Cloud FX and
the Spice Fire One, use MLS as their geolocation service!
* A zoomable world map of MLS coverage is published at [1]. To improve
our coverage for Firefox OS users in India, we are working with
Mozilla Reps to host stumbling meet-ups and competitions [2].
* Mozilla and the OpenCellID project are collaborating to publish our
cell location databases for use by anyone. The release announcement
and download links are at [3]. Mozilla has collected almost 2M cell
locations and OpenCellID has collected over 6M, so this data sharing
will boost both projects' coverage of the world's ~46M cells.
* "MozStumbler", our Android app to crowdsource the mapping of Wi-Fi and
cell locations, has an improved map UI that shows your tracks and
directs you to areas that need more measurements. You can download a
beta of the new UI from GitHub [4]. To increase the number of users,
we plan to publish MozStumbler in the Google Play Store when the new
map UI is polished.
* Firefox for Android includes a simple stumbler, but this feature has
been updated in Firefox 34 [5] to increase the data collection rate
without more power usage.
[1]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.geolocation/KLtVwL4K2Gg/Lvl7SAy76qEJ
[2] https://location.services.mozilla.com/map
[3] http://pierros.papadeas.gr/?p=377
[4] https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/releases
[5] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038843
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