Re: Mozilla Location Services - Heads up

2014-02-04 Thread Mike Hoye
On 2/3/2014, 10:08 AM, Hanno Schlichting wrote: Yes. You can read more about the API at: We really need an ARG and some badges for this, to give people some sort of incentive to wander all over the place. - mhoye ___ dev-platform mailing list

Re: Mozilla Location Services - Heads up

2014-02-04 Thread Chris Peterson
On 2/4/14, 10:08 AM, Mike Hoye wrote: We really need an ARG and some badges for this, to give people some sort of incentive to wander all over the place. Yes, though plenty of people (1000+) are happy to wander around collecting data today. :) We have a simple leaderboard [1], but we'd like

Re: Mozilla Location Services - Heads up

2014-02-03 Thread Hanno Schlichting
On 03.02.2014, at 02:03 , Doug Turner doug.tur...@gmail.com wrote: One of the interesting things is that we can use this data to provide location based services to Firefox. I switched my install of Firefox to use Mozilla Location Service (MLS). You can try this by simply change the

Re: Mozilla Location Services - Heads up

2014-02-03 Thread Hanno Schlichting
On 03.02.2014, at 07:09 , Philip Chee philip.c...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/02/2014 09:03, Doug Turner wrote: One of the interesting things is that we can use this data to provide location based services to Firefox. I switched my install of Firefox to use Mozilla Location Service (MLS). You can

Re: Mozilla Location Services - Heads up

2014-02-03 Thread Hanno Schlichting
On 03.02.2014, at 15:55 , Wesley Hardman whardma...@gmail.com wrote: I get a 404 response when using either address. Is this the expected response? (My area is not mapped so I don't expect it to correctly find my location.) Yes. You can read more about the API at:

Re: Mozilla Location Services - Heads up

2014-02-03 Thread Dave Townsend
Firefox for android only uploads information when a webpage does a location request, MozStumbler on the other hand allows you to permanents scan for data to send so it will send a lot more information On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Cameron McCormack c...@mcc.id.au wrote: Doug Turner wrote:

Mozilla Location Services - Heads up

2014-02-02 Thread Doug Turner
As you may know, some of us have been experimenting with a location service for mozilla. We've blogged about it in the past and you can find more information here: https://location.services.mozilla.com/ One of the interesting things is that we can use this data to provide location based

Re: Mozilla Location Services - Heads up

2014-02-02 Thread Cameron McCormack
Doug Turner wrote: In the mean time, if you want to help, download the Stumbler application for Android and start helping the world by mapping your area: https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/releases I have the Mozilla location services box ticked in my Firefox for Android. Will that do