Hi Chris, Glad to hear about all the awesome progress you have made in just one year. Keep it up! One question below:
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Chris Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]. Thats really great. I've been wondering about possibilities of doing the same in Europe. Do you guys have any plans for that? > * 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 > _______________________________________________ > dev-geolocation mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) ________________________________________ Befriend GNOME: http://www.gnome.org/friends/ _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation
