A similar project that also tracks cell towers and bluetooth beacons in addition to WiFi is https://beacondb.net .
Since Mozilla Location Services shut down they have been a good alternative for geolocation and they are public domain. Unfortunately, data dumps are currently not available, though.
Looking at areas I'm familiar with this is picking up a ton of non-fixed APs - in fact more mobile than fixed. Guessing that's cellphones with tethering on?
Hmm... I was under the impression that MS had added support for `_nomap` as well somewhere... but now I'm not finding any references to that. I suppose at the end of the day, you have to trust that they even follow their opt out policy at all.
And you'd probably have to rotate out the MAC address and broadcast name. At this point, cat is out of the bag. I'm brand new network name and Mac address with the opt-out flags is only going to keep you out of the honest databases :(
I still go around and war drive and upload em to WiGLE!
They make it really easy now. They even have an app you can download on your phone and just open up while driving and start logging and then it just uploads it to WiGLE when you hit stop.
A similar project that also tracks cell towers and bluetooth beacons in addition to WiFi is https://beacondb.net . Since Mozilla Location Services shut down they have been a good alternative for geolocation and they are public domain. Unfortunately, data dumps are currently not available, though.
The great thing about BeaconDB: the API-compatibility to MozillaLocationService. So apps just need to update their endpoint to continue working.
Looking at areas I'm familiar with this is picking up a ton of non-fixed APs - in fact more mobile than fixed. Guessing that's cellphones with tethering on?
If you want to be excluded from this - as well as from: Google, Microsoft, Apple lists- you have to add ‘_nomap’ to the end of your wifi name.
I thought it was _optout_nomap (the _optout for Microsoft, _nomap for Google/Apple)
Hmm... I was under the impression that MS had added support for `_nomap` as well somewhere... but now I'm not finding any references to that. I suppose at the end of the day, you have to trust that they even follow their opt out policy at all.
And you'd probably have to rotate out the MAC address and broadcast name. At this point, cat is out of the bag. I'm brand new network name and Mac address with the opt-out flags is only going to keep you out of the honest databases :(
Man - I loved this "back-in-the-day", uh... 23-years ago...
I still go around and war drive and upload em to WiGLE!
They make it really easy now. They even have an app you can download on your phone and just open up while driving and start logging and then it just uploads it to WiGLE when you hit stop.
I believe that is Android-only
See also: https://beacondb.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40895672
Thank you for sharing. Didn't knew it.