"selectively geonetworking with my friends."
That is a cool thought. Nay, a fantastic thought!
Let's say someone finds a really cool spot in the middle of nowhere. He
could pull out his OpenMoko-powered device, mark the location he is
currently in (being located by GPS). When he gets home, it coul
Ryan Prior wrote:
You seem to imply that there is a technical infeasibility that cannot be
overcome. If the public point database were segregated by a UNIX-style
permissions system and connected to via SSH, wouldn't it be just about
as safe as any public file server or database? Files that are
That's not as far as it goes, either -- if the software required to set up
and maintain a geolocation database is free and open source, then anybody
who does not trust the central provider can set up a dedicated machine with
any desired level of security and privacy measures taken.
There are some
On 7/4/07, Ryan Prior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You seem to imply that there is a technical infeasibility that cannot be
overcome. If the public point database were segregated by a UNIX-style
permissions system and connected to via SSH, wouldn't it be just about as
safe as any public file server
You seem to imply that there is a technical infeasibility that cannot be
overcome. If the public point database were segregated by a UNIX-style
permissions system and connected to via SSH, wouldn't it be just about as
safe as any public file server or database? Files that are "shared" can be
acces
Dylan McCall wrote:
There is another aspect.
Privacy.
For example, I might be happy to be visible to other phone users in
50-100m, and my friends.
I certainly do not want to be locatable by a random person over the
internet.
This does imply some sort of server, to which I upload my position,
As I wrote in that thread, I believe a static database is not the best
solution. The device could scan networks while idle and associate them with
GPS coordinates. A way to download existing known networks from a web
service could also be presented, if one wants to have an already built
catalog as
On 7/2/07, Stuart Gray wrote:
http://www.wefi.com/ seems to be along that lines, the software they are
using seems to be windows only at the moment though :(. But maybe somebody
could write and open source one that still has access to the Google Wifi
The http://www.wigle.net/ website has some
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