WiFi positioning goes to Moscow
The other day I used the Wi2Geo positioning service - great, it works. He correctly indicated my location with an accuracy of about 20 meters.
Wi2Geo is a WiFi navigation service. The idea of WiFi navigation is this: knowing the location of access points in the city and measuring the signal strength from the nearest points, which you can usually see a few, you can quite accurately estimate the position of a smartphone or laptop.
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I tried to use the Windows client on my laptop and on Windows Mobile on the iPAQ 514 - both showed my location correctly. It is assumed that for Symbian and iPhone, customers will also
Now Wi2Geo already knows about 16 thousand access points, but mainly located in the center of Moscow. However, their number in the database is increasing all the time, it seems that by the opening of the service on July 7 they will become much more. By the way, they can be seen on the map on the main page (only one hundred is displayed, in order to see more, you need to enlarge the map), divided into private open and closed ones, as well as free and paid Golden Weifai.
There is, of course, social functionality - the service is able to show the position of friends, and the creators promise to add a search for nearby cafes and the possibility of publishing their movements.
The developers promise that the service API will be publicly available after opening, but free of charge - only partly.
Wi2Geo is a WiFi navigation service. The idea of WiFi navigation is this: knowing the location of access points in the city and measuring the signal strength from the nearest points, which you can usually see a few, you can quite accurately estimate the position of a smartphone or laptop.
')
I tried to use the Windows client on my laptop and on Windows Mobile on the iPAQ 514 - both showed my location correctly. It is assumed that for Symbian and iPhone, customers will also
Now Wi2Geo already knows about 16 thousand access points, but mainly located in the center of Moscow. However, their number in the database is increasing all the time, it seems that by the opening of the service on July 7 they will become much more. By the way, they can be seen on the map on the main page (only one hundred is displayed, in order to see more, you need to enlarge the map), divided into private open and closed ones, as well as free and paid Golden Weifai.
There is, of course, social functionality - the service is able to show the position of friends, and the creators promise to add a search for nearby cafes and the possibility of publishing their movements.
The developers promise that the service API will be publicly available after opening, but free of charge - only partly.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/27263/
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