When I did it, the confirmation email said it might take a couple weeks depending on how many requests they get.
Although Locate Me has worked well for me in many places, it locates my house one county, three cities and eight miles from its actual location. It does this with wifi on and with wifi off.
I gave skyhook my wireless router details the day the thread started and it was in the system with in a week.
Interesting. Are you surrounded by other hotspots? Are you in a surveyed area?
I'm thinking the reason they didn't take my info, is because I'm not in a surveyed area, and thus they have no way to check on the data.
(They say that their code checks for nearby hotspots to "self-heal" their database.)
Well I entered my information, and no more than 5 minutes later it moved closer but its still about 2.5 miles away from my house (center of cross-hair). I'll try again later I guess.
Anyone have a theory about that?
Interesting. Are you surrounded by other hotspots? Are you in a surveyed area?
I'm thinking the reason they didn't take my info, is because I'm not in a surveyed area, and thus they have no way to check on the data.
(They say that their code checks for nearby hotspots to "self-heal" their database.)
Anyway, when they say their database is "self healing," I think they mean that in a urban or high-density surveyed area, a single router with an anomalous geotag is eradicated from the database if its geolocation doesn't match the majority of the routers around it.
Yes, I answered you above, at May 17, 2008, 10:20 PM![]()
and i appreciate that. but your reply didn't seem to address a couple questions. IF the system's reverting only to cellphone towers, why does that system locate me so far from my actual location?
Worse, why would that same system precisely report the location of my iphone if i walk 150 feet in any direction from my home? My home's in the coverage area indicated on skyhook's map, by the way.