Beuller.... Beuller....? No answer: do you have WiFi info for the Washington DC metro area?
Jason On Oct 24, 2:55 pm, Jason Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using the latest Gears (0.4.24.0, the one advertised to have WiFi > geolocation data), on Mac OS X (10.5.5) in Firefox. > > I gave you the locations I was in -- Rockville, MD, Bethesda, MD, and > Washington, DC. Do you not have WiFi info for any of them? > > In any event, as others have now said elsewhere (on the Google Code > weblog post, in the comments, and on weblogs), your geolocation data > currently is very much inferior to the Geode/Skyhook info... > > Jason > > On Oct 23, 4:38 pm, "Jonathan McPhie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Jason, > > Thanks for your email. A couple quick questions - how were your testing > > Google's geolocation service? What platform/OS? And have you downloaded and > > installed the latest version of Gears? > > > If you are getting results that are miles away, you are not hitting Google's > > Wifi database - it sounds like these are IP-address based results. Either > > you are using an old build of Gears or you are in an area where we don't > > have Wi-fi coverage. > > > Thanks again for the feedback! > > Jonathan > > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Jason Levine > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > > Has anyone else noticed that the new Gears geolocation service, with > > > added data from wifi access points, is wildly inaccurate? > > > > I've now tested it in three different locations, with the following > > > results: > > > > * Rockville, MD: five wifi APs visible, geolocated to over 14 miles > > > from my actual location; > > > * Washington, DC: seven wifi APs visible, geolocated to over 25 miles > > > from my actual location; > > > * Bethesda, MD: eight wifi APs viaible, geolocated to over 14 miles > > > from my actual location. > > > > Note that in all these cases, Geode (using Skyhook's wifi DB) got me > > > to within a block of my actual location, and in two of the three, got > > > me to within meters of my actual location. > > > > Jason
