I agree that the location service should be immunized against false data.
Is there already something done?


2014-03-04 11:59 GMT+01:00 André Fiedler <[email protected]>:

> And if someone feeds real world data, but does:
>
> latitude + random()
> longitude + random()
>
> ?
>
> Wouldn't it mess up the geolocation service? Maybe 1 out of 100 won't mess
> it up, but 1 out of 2 will.
>
> greetings,
> SunboX
>
> Am 03. März 2014 um 23:23 schrieb Chris Peterson <[email protected]>:
>
>
>  On 3/3/14, 1:57 PM, Felix Baumann wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to write an algorithm to delete those plots? (they look
>>> faked/wrong and useless to me)
>>>
>>
>> Fortunately, geolocation clients probably won't be affected by fake data
>> because the fake data probably won't match the cell tower or Wi-Fi MAC
>> addresses clients see in the real world. :)
>>
>> And even if someone feed fake data into the database (which is
>> inevitable), the service geolocates clients using multiple cells or
>> Wi-Fi APs so any bogus outliers that appear far away will be filtered out.
>>
>>
>> chris
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