I got exactly the same behaviour with my non-android phone and home router, a location bang in the centre of a nearby town. Perhaps google have lowered the resolution of the service in the uk?
Jim On Sunday, 24 April 2011, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24 April 2011 18:50, Adrian Crenshaw <[email protected]> wrote: >> The topic of Android phones reporting the access points they see back to >> Google interests me. I had been talking to Kevin Johnson about it just last >> week. Today I heard about Samy's project from ISD: >> >> http://samy.pl/androidmap >> >> But awhile back at Hack3con, DaKahuna showed me this script: >> >> >> #!/bin/bash >> if [ $# != 1 ]; then >> echo "# Google Gears WiFi Geolocation API query, by ShadowHatesYou" >> echo "# [email protected]" >> >> echo "#" >> echo "# Use: $0 MAC " >> echo "# $0 00-C0-26-A9-42-F7" >> echo "#" >> exit; >> fi; >> >> curl http://www.google.com/loc/json -H "Pragma: no-cache" -H "Cache-control: >> no-cache" -d "{ \"version\": \"1.1.0\", \"host\": \"maps.google.com\", >> \"request_address\": true, \"address_language\": \"en_GB\", \"wifi_towers\": >> [ { \"mac_address\": \"$1\", \"signal_strength\": 8, \"age\": 0 } ] }" >> >> It apparently ties a MAC address to a geo-location. When he put in the MAC >> address for my class router, he was able to find it's location when I had it >> on down in Atlanta (I doubt a Google streets car just happened to be going >> by at that time). Unfortunatly, I'd sometimes get bad results from the >> script above (it would use my current IP instead of the MAC I gave it to do >> the geo location), maybe Samy's stuff will work better. >> >> Geo locating the router is not such a big deal I suppose, but DaKahuna also >> said he was able to pic up the location of an Android phone if he knew it's >> MAC address. Anyone care to test this for me? Might be interesting if you >> could track someones location only be seeing their MAC address once. All >> I've been able to replicate is the location of a router MAC. > > I just tried this script with my MBP, my wifes phone and my own phone. > All three come down to the same lat/long which is the other side of > the city to where I am but at least gets the city right. > > Robin > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
