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Umm, I don't doubt that there is a lot of nefarious data collection going on, for both profit and political reasons. But this seems to me like a "Google Now" ki
by captainmuon 8y ago
Umm, I don't doubt that there is a lot of nefarious data collection going on, for both profit and political reasons. But this seems to me like a "Google Now" kind of feature, that suggests modes of transportation based on your current location. Having a list of train stations and airports and doing the detection on the phone as opposed to in the cloud seems even the more privacy protecting way (although they probably still upload your entire GPS history like Google does...).
- lwhi 8y agoI'm guessing POI stands for person of interest? If so, seems more nefarious to me ... Edit: definitely more likely it's point of interest
- zht 8y agoPOI stands for point of interest probably. When stand-alone GPS navigation devices were more common it was a pretty common acronym.
- lwhi 8y agoGood point .. but if you look at the context, I think person of interest actually makes more sense in a lot of cases.
- yayana 8y agoSeems like it is always related to whether a point is a person's X,Y,Z and then what airport given multiple X,Y,Z.. I.e. what airport is in the user's habitual range. I don't get why you would want the calculate an airport for multiple people of interest on one POI's phone.
- lwhi 8y agoGroups of people travelling together?
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- BoorishBears 8y agoPOI stands for Point of Interest. People learn something new every day, I don’t know why you’re trying to force it.
- azinman2 8y agoContext is about location. Point of interest is most probable. That’s standard mapping lingo.
- lwhi 8y agoI definitely understand your point, but I'm talking about the specific context the acronym is being used in. e.g. callsPoiAtHome() callsPoiAtHomeAtGeoPoint() callsPoiAtFamiliarPlace() callsPoiAtWorkPlace() Edit: typo
- yayana 8y agoWhy would you combine the Boolean for whether a user is nefariously a Person OI with each type of check for their location? Nefarious POI would have a very limited context in the frontend (after it turns everything on.) Subcategories of Points OI being coded this way makes a lot more sense.
- lwhi 8y agoYeah, good point - may have been watching too much TV :)
- azinman2 8y agoI read this as the POI IS at home, the POI IS at familiar place, etc.