* On 12-Oct-2006 at 8:30AM PDT, Joe Germuska said: > > Today's podcast with Cyril Houri, founder and CEO of Mexens > Technologies, advances a story I began telling in early 2005 about > annotating the planet. The problem was, and still is, that there > aren't very many people with GPS devices. Cyril's system, Navizon, > aims to bootstrap us out of that situation. The idea is to incent > people carrying the fairly small number of GPS-equipped mobile > devices (PocketPCs, cellphones) to map the locations of both WiFi > access points and cell towers. Then people using vast numbers of > devices on WiFi or cellular networks can use location-aware > applications without having to own GPS gear.
What's the license on the data that users collect, Jon? Do the users own it? Does Mexens own it but publish it under a free license that guarantees its reuse? Or do the users simply collect it for Mexens for free? What's to prevent a Gracenoting? Is this hacking or hacksploitation? Hmm? SDE _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
