It turns out you can get a location just by scanning nearby wifi and cell tower signals!

  • 5gruel@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    ITT people not understanding that non-de-googled android phones use that method for localization by default, falling back to GPS only when WiFi trilateration fails.

    It is a smart robust way for localization and beacondb breaks the data monopoly.

    • 154b161@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 days ago

      Google, Apple and Qualcomm already have all this data. BeaconDB democratizes it.