I’ll note that, at least on my Samsung phone, the reporting bit is opt-in (i.e. if you turn on wifi-aided geolocation you agree to contribute back). Of course, GPS is slow, so most people take the trade.
Do we have a model of how many opt-ins (absolute number) we’d need to have in a given area to deliver solid results? Saying “we need way more” isn’t really enough to define/target success. It’s also worth noting that purely percentage-based opt-ins won’t be as relevant (i.e. a lot of Toronto and the Bay Area is well-mapped already). If we want to get more data from less-covered areas, it’s potentially a very different call to action: publish a set of bounding boxes where we need more coverage, when we fulfil a location request, check to see if the user is in a less-covered area. If they are, the ask can then be framed “Mozilla is building a privacy-respecting location service, and we need your help to make it awesome in your area!” It’s a more specific ask, and I’d suspect the more personal contribution aspect would help opt-in rates. Semi-related: have we considered enabling a similar feature in desktop builds? It obviously wouldn’t be as good for the “in-between” spaces, but it’d still get us more data than we have now. — Mike On Jun 12, 2014, at 10:18 AM, Garvan Keeley <[email protected]> wrote: > Also worth mentioning, is that MLS stumbling requires way higher levels of > opt-in than other forms of data reporting. Other forms can be successful with > much smaller numbers of samples, and the interpretation of their collected > data allows extrapolation/generalization to a larger population. > We need WAY higher opt-in numbers for success. Google and Apple (and > Microsoft) don't give users a choice and automatically stumble. We will never > do that of course. > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev _______________________________________________ mobile-firefox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev
