MozStumbler

I don't know what WiGLE users do with the data, but I read the WiGLE admins sold Wi-Fi location data to Microsoft to bootstrap Bing Maps back in the day: https://wigle.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=586 I helped bootstrap Mozilla's Location Service (MLS) to support geolocation on Firefox OS without Google Location Services. Mozilla even had its own Wi-Fi "wardriving/stumbling" app (MozStumbler https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler) and an opt-in stumbler in Firefox Android. But after Firefox OS was retired, Mozilla didn't have have a need for MLS. That said, Mozilla still runs a Wi-Fi geolocation service open to other projects (like GNOME's Geoclue service). Mozilla also publishes cell tower location data and shares with the OpenCellID project. I worked with Mozilla's privacy and security teams to see if we could publish the Wi-Fi location da

It won't, see code here -> https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/blob/dev/android/src/... The first check is "if we don't get a SSID, we don't collect". That's what happens with hidden networks.

YES. We caught that bug just before release. :) https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/issues/1137

geo-fencing was extremely rarely used. I think we had single digit numbers of people who enabled the feature and understood what it meant. We decided to cut out geofencing because it was confusing to most people and reducing the number of knobs and dials on a program is usually a good thing. We've got a bug filed to hook the accelerometers though: https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/issues/1107

Google provides an opt-out. They will ignore your AP if you append "_nomap" to the end of your SSID. Does Stumbler also support this? If not, why not? Ref: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/1725632?hl=en edit: Found the answer to my own question. Yes, they do support "nomap": https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/issues/149

Android phones are constantly scanning cell and Wi-Fi networks to improve Google's geolocation, mapping, and traffic services. Google/Niantic could direct players (by setting the portal locations) to areas that need more network scanning, beyond the network scanning their Street View cars do. At Mozilla, we are trying to do something similar with our "MozStumbler" app [1] for community "stumbling" of wireless networks. You can compare Mozilla's network coverage of the Embarcadero map in the Venture Beat article at [2]. We also have weekly leaderboards to show who has discovered the most new cell or Wi-Fi networks at [3]. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/releases [2] https://location.services.mozilla.com/map#15/37.7966/-122.39... [3] https://location.services.mozilla.com/leaders/weekly

Apple and Google are totally allowed to use OSM data, they just can't close it up, DRM it, and stick it in an app store. Mozilla is going "above and beyond" to build a dataset of wifi ap mac addresses and cell towers on top of OSM. https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Location There is no shortage of OSM-based apps available on f-droid: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=openstreetma...