> > I'd be inclined to *not* use the data reporting notification to try
> to drive uptake, and instead appeal some time after first run (or
> maybe after the first web site asks for your location?).
>
> That is a very good idea. Solves the problem mentioned below, and
> provides a better user experience (imaginary user-think: "I looked up
> a location, I see the value of this info, and Firefox is asking me to
> help contribute location info, I will associate this question with
> providing better info on pages like this.").
I like this idea a lot, though I expect that Android users do most of
their location lookups from apps (like Google Maps or Yelp), not mobile
web pages. So we could also show the stumbler opt-in message that next
time Fennec is opened after the passive location provider detects
another app using Android's location API.
I hope Fennec's redesigned First Run experience considers a similar
delayed approach for other opt-in questions.
> > 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.
>
> It is relatively easy to hook up on the desktop, to do an occasional
> wifi scan when someone visits a web page that uses geolocation. I
> don't recall this being discussed, but it is a good idea.
I think I proposed this to dougt long ago. We can report Wi-Fi access
points from Firefox desktop, but we can't report a location because we
do not want to incorporate location results from Google's Location Service.
However, even Wi-Fi APs without locations is *somewhat* useful because
we could correlate new APs as neighbors to known APs. If Firefox reports
that it sees "Mozilla Guest" and "Mozilla Mobile" and our MLS database
knows about "Mozilla Guest", it can assume that "Mozilla Mobile" is nearby.
I also suggested that Firefox desktop report traceroutes so Mozilla
could build a map of the internet's network topology. That data might be
useful for building our own GeoIP database. :)
chris
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