Informal triangulation
Posted at 6:51am on Monday, October 3rd, 2005Intel has published a white paper (precis, summary, full PDF) discussing a tool kit for mobile devices to use mapped local radio sources (such as known 802.11 hot spots and GSM transmitters) to triangulate their positions; there is so much known local radio traffic why put in new networks for such a simple task? Read more at the Place Lab web site
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