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Introducing the Gears Geolocation API for all laptop WiFi users

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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  1. OliverOctober 21, 2008 at 1:39 AM

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  2. Sarp ErdağOctober 22, 2008 at 3:52 AM

    It's amazing that the service can find your location by at most 200m error. However, the sample on Google Gears website was not able to find my place accurately. Is there something I am missing? How exactly does the API use this Wi-fi spotting technology?

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  3. JasonOctober 22, 2008 at 10:15 AM

    The Gears Geolocation API has far, far worse data than Geode (that uses Skyhook); it can't locate me right now better than somewhere within a 24 km circle, whereas Geode literally has me down to the right building.

    Any thoughts on how Gears Geolocation is going to improve its data?

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  4. Jared RoccoOctober 22, 2008 at 10:48 AM

    It would be interesting if somebody ran a side by side test of Geode/Skyhook and Google Gears. Maybe go around town and do 15-20 look-ups to see how they compare?

    Hmmm. Looks like I have something to do this weekend...

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  5. JasonOctober 22, 2008 at 6:04 PM

    Yep, now at a different location -- my home, with seven wifi access points visible to me, I'm being geolocated by Gears at a location over 25 miles away from my *actual* location. I hate to say it, but this Gears geolocation info is uniformly not useful in its current incarnation.

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  6. decades softwareOctober 23, 2008 at 1:47 PM

    Skyhook seems to be 100% better than Gears. I couldn't look up _any_ of ~30 BSSIDs with Gears, but _all_ with Skyhook.

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  7. richmsOctober 26, 2008 at 4:07 AM

    Its putting me on a bridge across the harbour from my house, whereas skyhook on loki is putting me in the neighbours house.

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  8. kaelOctober 27, 2008 at 11:28 AM

    Does Google plan to release a REST API to query their CellID and SSID database ?

    SSID and CellID would be two useful query parameters for Google Maps, though.

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  9. alisonvmOctober 31, 2008 at 11:33 AM

    I love Google API!
    I know a very good site tha uses this. Its a real estate search engine called Imobilien.

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  10. roseNovember 1, 2008 at 3:50 AM

    Google has hopped on the WiFi positioning bandwagon by adding support for an undisclosed database of WiFi network locations to its Gears Geolocation API.Google said on its Code Blog that the service for laptops "securely locate[s] users to within 200m accuracy"and Google's Mobile Blog said the improvement is immediately available for BlackBerry users who download an updated Google Maps for Mobile application.It will soon be rolled out to other platforms,including the Google-backed Android.The new update to Google Gears will now work with Location Based Services.
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  11. melidMay 26, 2010 at 10:19 AM

    I've checked two positions today. One had an accuracy of less than 100m, the other one about 1km. The accuracy error for the second location is caused by my own wifi router...it's been at my previous house during data survey. However, the guessed location been less than 20m from the former position of the wifi router.

    I'm thinking of using the API for one of my sites.

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  12. sashaApril 28, 2011 at 11:13 PM

    nice blog

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  13. ljwoodJuly 7, 2011 at 9:16 PM

    Congratulations on enhancing the Gears Geolocation API! An interesting post! Thanks for sharing this!

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