Skyhook’s LBS
Posted: February 5th, 2008 | Author: john | Filed under: General | No Comments »So I downloaded Skyhook’s SDK and ran the example program. I was pretty freaked out when it located me to right outside my house! So how did it do that? Well, some time back, possibly 2 years ago I did some war driving with my Sharp Zaurus hooked up to a GPS. I literally drove about a mile and clocked up a 100 or so AP’s. I uploaded the log to wigle. So I am guessing this information made it’s way from wigle’s database to Skyhook’s. Either that or somebody else war drove past my house and provided the information to Skyhook! Anyway, I think that with some commerical backing this approach could prove very useful for location-based applications.
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