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Show HN: BeaconDB – An Alternative to Mozilla Location Services
Reading the MLS retirement issue[1] it seems that multiple established organizations (e foundation, Graphene) are also interested in providing an alternative service. Does this mean that we're now in a situation where multiple open source location service providers are competing, or is this the only publicly accessible project in this space for now?
This project is cool and all, but seems to just be a one person effort with not a lot of engagement on GitHub[2]. Are you in talks with other people with similar goals to expand and collaborate on the project? Having the backing of an existing developer community could really bring this to the next level.
1) https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065
2) https://github.com/beacondb/beacondb
apple-corelocation-experiments
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Show HN: BeaconDB – An Alternative to Mozilla Location Services
Apple probably has one of the largest databases. Their API is unauthenticated and not rate limited either. Can be used for both APs and cell towers: https://github.com/acheong08/apple-corelocation-experiments
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Show HN: A deeper dive into Apple's WI-FI geolocation service
I've been working on this over the past week after reading about it in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40492234.
I found an interesting API that returns the largest network in a given tile but have failed to find the algorithm used to encode the `X-tilekey` field used for positioning. I got close with morton encoding and linear regression which works for most of the UK but deviates as you go North/South.
I'm posting this both to show what I've done and ask for help. If anyone knows how tile keys might work, please let me know (either here or in an issue). A small data sample: https://github.com/acheong08/apple-corelocation-experiments/...
Thank you.
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Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems
I’ve been experimenting with this over the past few days: https://github.com/acheong08/apple-corelocation-experiments
Found some interesting things and still working on recording more MITM from my iPhone to see what else is sent.
What are some alternatives?
rfparty-monitor - its like a tricorder, for your wireless world.
super - 📡 SPR: Open Source, secure, user friendly and fast wifi routers for your home. One wifi password per device. Ad Blocking & Privacy Blocklists. Policy Based Network Access
webinterface-wifi - View the web interface over wifi. For the ReMarkable Tablet.
ichnaea - Mozilla Ichnaea
TowerCollector - The OpenCellID and BeaconDB contributor's app.
trackerjacker - Like nmap for mapping wifi networks you're not connected to, plus device tracking
FlyingCarpet - Cross-platform AirDrop. File transfer between Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows over ad hoc WiFi. No network infrastructure required, just two devices with WiFi chips in close range.
apple-bssid - make requests to apples bssid database
geo-golang - Go library to access geocoding and reverse geocoding APIs