Re: Access to wifi-towers

I think the fact that you xx-ed out all the values in your email only serves to demonstrate the massive privacy issues associated with exposing such data. :)

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On 06/06/2011, at 20:06, "Manuel Bieh" <office@manuelbieh.de> wrote:

> Hey guys,
> 
> I've just read the Geolocation Level 2 Spec and I have one
> wish/suggestion for future versions of the spec:
> 
> Wouldn't it be great to provide a way to query all the surrounding
> wifi towers to work with it?
> 
> When I use Geolocation in Firefox and monitor my outgoing traffic,
> there's an interesting post request sent to
> https://www.google.com/loc/json posting the following JSON object:
> 
> {
>   "version":"1.1.0",
>   "request_address":true,
>   "access_token":"........",
>   "wifi_towers":[
>      {
>         "mac_address":"xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx",
>         "ssid":"GuestWLAN",
>         "signal_strength":-64
>      },
>      {
>         "mac_address":"xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx",
>         "ssid":"Guest",
>         "signal_strength":-83
>      },
>      {
>         "mac_address":"xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx",
>         "ssid":"devel",
>         "signal_strength":-84
>      },
>      {
>         "mac_address":"xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx",
>         "ssid":"E5832-S-ac22",
>         "signal_strength":-81
>      }
>   ]
> }
> 
> For the use of Geolocation indoors it'd be really great to be able to
> access the wifi_towers property so I can try to determine my position
> inside the building with the help of the signal strength of the
> surrounding wifi towers.
> 
> I could imagine an interface that looks like
> position.wifi[i].ssid
> position.wifi[i].strength
> 
> Maybe you have already discussed that in the past, I couldn't find it
> in the public archives but maybe it's actually a new idea. Anyway, I'd
> be pleased if this suggestions finds its way to one of the future
> Gelocation specs one day.
> 
> Regards
> Manuel
> 
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> Manuel Bieh
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> 
>

Received on Monday, 6 June 2011 10:11:36 UTC