Wifi Geolocation
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Playing around with Google Latitude I was VERY surprised to see Latitude work out my exact location. How are they doing this? I don't have a GPS in my netbook?
Turns out they use wifi location to do this. When Latitude determines your location it gathers up a list of all the nearby Wifi SSIDs / MAC addresses and sends this to Google. Google have a database of Wifi access point locations created by driving cars around. This database, in combination with the nearby Wifi details, is used to determine your location. Pretty amazing that this actually works! Skyhook wireless is the first company I heard about building a Wifi database.
Always curious to see this stuff in action I fired up Fiddler to see exactly what is being sent to determine my location.
Request:
POST /loc/json HTTP/1.1
{
"access_token": "2:Fv--0aj9-Vr4_3ir:8uFyciMoILwtrXry",
"host": "lfkq9vbe9u4sg98ip8rfvf00l7atcn3d.ig.ig.gmodules.com",
"radio_type": "unknown",
"request_address": false,
"version": "1.1.0",
"wifi_towers": [
{
"mac_address": "00-0b-6b-81-7b-14",
"signal_strength": -72,
"ssid": "OA0509-0077-1-M"
},
{
"mac_address": "00-0b-6b-81-7d-0d",
"signal_strength": -78,
"ssid": "OA0509-0096-1-1"
},
{
"mac_address": "00-0b-6b-81-7d-0f",
"signal_strength": -85,
"ssid": "OA0509-0052-2-1"
},
{
"mac_address": "00-0b-6b-81-7d-29",
"signal_strength": -80,
"ssid": "OA0509-0096-2-1"
},
{
"mac_address": "00-0b-6b-81-7d-8a",
"signal_strength": -82,
"ssid": "OA0509-0101-1-1"
},
{
"mac_address": "00-0b-6b-81-7e-bd",
"signal_strength": -79,
"ssid": "OA0509-0052-1-1"
},
{
"mac_address": "00-22-3f-9b-f1-a4",
"signal_strength": -61,
"ssid": "2/107"
}
]
}
Response:
{
"location": {
"accuracy": 165.0,
"latitude": -33.874097499999998,
"longitude": 151.20640280000001
}
}
Want to add geolocation to your own web application? Check out the Google Gears Geolocation API, or the Firefox's geolocation object
Check this http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/GoogleGeoLocator.aspx
Posted by
Mohammad Hefny |
6:11 am
This can t be true.
I'm pretty sure that Google NEVER came to my street by car, in a medium-sozed city of Brazil, to be able to say where my home access point is located. But it points EXACTLY to my home.
I guess they store the data from my GPS powered cell phone where I've used latitude to identify location of my access point.
Posted by
CTM |
8:25 am
Hi CristianTM, have a look at the skyhook wireless coverage: http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/coverage.php. There's a few points around Rio & São Paulo. Note anyone can submit the location of their access point: http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/submit_ap.php.
Here's an experiment - try the firefox geolocation demo on a wifi laptop that's not connected to your phone: http://www.mozilla.com/en-GB/firefox/geolocation/. Or try it with wifi disabled, only connected to the net via ethernet.
Posted by
Russ |
8:48 am
Keep up the great Blog.
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Keep up the great blog
Posted by
Anonymous |
5:18 pm
Did you know what those wifi hot spots actually are?
http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/fmepf/anyone_knows_about_the_story_behind_these_wifi/
Posted by
PeterKneale |
1:50 pm
hi Peter, i don't know what those funny random ssids are. i've been told they are part of the emergency broadcast system. makes sense i guess. fyi - the ssids in the blog article were collected @ Bathurst St KFC :)
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