It’s a project that’s compiling a map of wifi/cell tower/bluetooth locations for location services. GPS doesn’t work well in some cases (indoors, remote locations, areas with tall buildings) and so big companies have built similar databases to get accurate location information, but those ones are proprietary / private. This project is intended to be a public / openly licensed version of that, while also
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It’s a project that’s compiling a map of wifi/cell tower/bluetooth locations for location services. GPS doesn’t work well in some cases (indoors, remote locations, areas with tall buildings) and so big companies have built similar databases to get accurate location information, but those ones are proprietary / private. This project is intended to be a public / openly licensed version of that, while also