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Is the wifi AP database downloadable somewhere (OSM/Wikipedia style) or is it "cloudlocked" (we can only query it through the API) ?
by Aissen 12y ago
Is the wifi AP database downloadable somewhere (OSM/Wikipedia style) or is it "cloudlocked" (we can only query it through the API) ?
- zz1 12y agohttps://location.services.mozilla.com/downloads https://location.services.mozilla.com/downloads
- Aissen 12y ago> wifi AP database You linked to the download page where there's only the Cell Networks database.
- hannosch 12y agoGood question, I added a ticket to get this addressed: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/330 https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/330 I wrote about some of the topics a while back. Not all of it is up-to-date but it gives the broader context: http://blog.hannosch.eu/2013/12/mozilla-location-service-what-why-and.html http://blog.hannosch.eu/2013/12/mozilla-location-service-wha...
- crankycoder1975 12y agoWe're going to put some more information there on why we don't publish wifi at this point. https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/330 https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/330 In a nutshell though, we don't know how to do this yet without creating a privacy nightmare.
- pornel 12y agoI can't find the post, but I remember reading that they'd rather not expose full raw data because of privacy concerns — there could be a way to mine this data to de-anonymize users. I'd love to play with the raw data too, but I understand their concern. So far many "anonymous" large data dumps ended up exposing too much (e.g. recently NY taxi data).
- Aissen 12y agoOh I know this might be very sensitive privacy-wise. People should just be aware if they're contributing to a proprietary database (like Google Maps) or an open one (like OSM) when using Mozilla Stumbler.