Geosense, determining your location without GPS

Geosense is a software sensor that represents the Location & Sensors platform in Windows 7, it collects information from various sources about your location when there is no GPS device onboard.
It works best on computers equipped with WiFi adapters, but their presence is not necessary.

How does it work?

Developers have hired thousands of pigeons that work for bread crumbs to spy on their users all over the world.

No, seriously, Geosense is designed to use a hybrid system of geolocation services and geolocation methods to determine the most accurate location information, not limited to WiFi by triangulation, as well as by cell tower triangulation and IP search.
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Currently supported:

• Google Location Services (WiFi)
• Google Location Services (IP)

Under consideration:

• Google Location Services (Cell)
• Skyhook Wireless (WiFi)
• Quova (WiFi)
• Navizon (WiFi)

Security

Data security is always important for developers, but to be honest, they are a little under their control.

Geosense only collects and temporarily stores information about access points around you for the sole purpose of sending this data to Google Location Services. The privacy policy of this Google service explains what data they collect and use.

Information about the location provided by Geosense is available only to applications running on your Windows 7 system. Responsibility for the use of this information falls on the shoulders of software manufacturers.

I installed that now?

Unfortunately, not many applications currently support this functionality. To demonstrate how the sensor works, the developers have created a client application for Google Maps .

The following applications are also available:

• Weather gadget for the sidebar, in the properties, select "Find location automatically"
• MahTweets - Tweets and Flickr photos with geo-tags

All this for free

Developers believe that while manufacturers do not integrate GPS devices into PCs, Geosense is an excellent alternative to eliminate this disadvantage.

Official site of the project
More information about the Location & Sensor platform