On 2/18/15 3:58 AM, Hanno Schlichting wrote:
This only removes the manual SSID blocklist entries looking for things like "train" or "bus".
Also, having multiple locations for the same access point is not necessarily a bad thing, depending on our server-side location algorithm. If you know you are somewhere along a known bus route, that's narrows your possible locations in the world quite a bit. :)
The basic (current) algorithm assumes each AP has one location (averaged from all stumbler sightings) and geolocates the user by averaging the average locations for the APs they currently see.
A more advanced algorithm divides the world into a grid and maps APs to multiple grid squares. The server geolocates the user by testing which grid square has the most "hits" from the APs they currently see.
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