We've heard that GPS doesn't work well in the city (too many
skyscrapers, not enough open sky). Wifi-based location tracking seems
to be an alternative worth considering. The idea is to have the device
identify (but not necessarily connect) to surrounding access points and
then determine its
Intel's Placelab (www.placelab.org) was a great privacy -sensitive wifi
based positioning system developed at their Seattle Lab. But its since been
handed over to Microsoft as part of Virtual Earth and they are going to keep
ll your personal location data and do anythign they want with it
On
Isnt' yahoo or google trying to give free access the city of San
Fran? they could do it too (in the city), and pretty easily as they
control/manage the network...
Yury
On Dec 15, 2005, at 3:00 PM, Anthony Townsend wrote:
Intel's Placelab (www.placelab.org) was a great privacy -sensitive
