Show HN: BeaconDB – An Alternative to Mozilla Location Services

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  • apple-corelocation-experiments

    Experimenting with Apple's WPS location service

    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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  • ichnaea

    Discontinued Mozilla Ichnaea

    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

  • beacondb

    an in-development wireless geolocation database with public domain data dumps - 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

  • TowerCollector

    The OpenCellID and BeaconDB contributor's app.

    > TowerCollector

    The developer might be open to add other services since MLS is being retired: https://github.com/zamojski/TowerCollector/issues/223

    Doesn't hurt to contact them/make suggestions on this issue.

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