WiFi positioning goes to Moscow
The other day I used the Wi2Geo positioning service - great, it works. He correctly indicated my location with an accuracy of about 20 meters.
Wi2Geo is a WiFi navigation service. The idea of WiFi-navigation is this: knowing the location of access points in the city and measuring the signal strength from the nearest points, which are usually visible several, you can accurately assess the position of a smartphone or laptop. I tried using the client for Windows on my laptop and for Windows Mobile on the iPAQ 514 - both correctly showed my location. It is assumed that for Symbian and iPhone clients will also be
Now Wi2Geo already knows about 16 thousand access points, but mainly located in the center of Moscow. However, their number in the database is increasing all the time, it seems that by the opening of the service on July 7 there will be much more of them. By the way, they can be seen on the map on the main page (only a hundred is displayed, you need to enlarge the map to see more), divided into private open and closed, as well as paid and free Golden Wi-Fi.
There is, of course, social functionality - the service can show the position of friends, and the creators promise to add a search for nearby cafes and the ability to publish their movements.
The developers promise that the service API will be publicly available after opening, but only partly free.
Wi2Geo is a WiFi navigation service. The idea of WiFi-navigation is this: knowing the location of access points in the city and measuring the signal strength from the nearest points, which are usually visible several, you can accurately assess the position of a smartphone or laptop. I tried using the client for Windows on my laptop and for Windows Mobile on the iPAQ 514 - both correctly showed my location. It is assumed that for Symbian and iPhone clients will also be
Now Wi2Geo already knows about 16 thousand access points, but mainly located in the center of Moscow. However, their number in the database is increasing all the time, it seems that by the opening of the service on July 7 there will be much more of them. By the way, they can be seen on the map on the main page (only a hundred is displayed, you need to enlarge the map to see more), divided into private open and closed, as well as paid and free Golden Wi-Fi.
There is, of course, social functionality - the service can show the position of friends, and the creators promise to add a search for nearby cafes and the ability to publish their movements.
The developers promise that the service API will be publicly available after opening, but only partly free.