Cracked 60.000 #networklocation recordings with #neostumbler, uploaded to @beacondb !
Over 120.000 wifis, 2.700 cell towers and 3.300 bluetooth beacons!
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[#]beacondb #unifiednlp #geoclue #grapheneos #microg #navigation #cyberresilience #openstreetmap #opensource #privacy
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@Rhababerbarbar @beacondb is the point of this so that OSM can provide high accuracy geolocation just like Google, etc? I thought people generally didn't like their Wi-Fi networks being mapped. Or is there a way to do it while respecting privacy?
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@semitones @Rhababerbarbar Yep, that's the goal. I started up this project because Mozilla has now shutdown their Location Services, leaving the open source community with no alternatives. Some projects have been using proprietary databases like Google and Apple Location Services.
You're correct that some people don't like their WiFi networks being mapped. They can opt out from most location services (Apple, Google, BeaconDB, etc) by adding _nomap to the end of their SSID.
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@semitones @Rhababerbarbar There are a few ideas the community is working on to tackle these privacy issues, such as publishing data in a way that you can't easily identify a single AP globally: https://codeberg.org/beacondb/beacondb/issues/68
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