BeaconDB

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BeaconDBApr 30

NeoStumbler v2.0.0 has been released, featuring passive data collection, options to reduce uploaded metadata for your privacy, and a new interface for browsing collected data.

More info here: https://github.com/mjaakko/NeoStumbler/releases/tag/2.0.0

BeaconDBApr 3
Gaël Duval - /e/OS & MurenaApr 3

Last year, Mozilla stopped to operate their widely used network location service "Mozilla Location Service" 😐

In order to ensure a continuity of service in /e/OS, we have replaced it by an anonymizer proxy service of our own to the HERE network location service.

Since then, a few initiatives have started to provide alternatives. One of them, BeaconDB, can already be tested in recent /e/OS builds 💪

We'd love to hear from /e/OS users' experience about it! 🙏

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https://community.e.foundation/t/requesting-user-feedback-by-testing-beacondb/68328

Requesting user feedback by testing BeaconDB

Feed back from /e/OS users We are testing BeaconDB as a possible new default network location service on /e/OS. We have conducted first tests internally and have got some positive results. Now we would like to get more feedback from /e/OS users who are spread across the world and on different service providers What you need to do to assist with the testing? On your device: Settings → System → microG → Location → “…” at the top right and enter the custom value: https://api.beacondb.net D...

/e/OS community
BeaconDBMar 22
Show threadhazel cora  Mar 22
@beacondb the AirPort Utility app has a share sheet button for access point details if you enable the wifi scanning feature in its settings, including full data which no other app on ios to my knowledge actually has full access to lol
BeaconDBMar 22
hazel cora  Mar 22
think i mightve just done the first submission to @beacondb from an iphone (without jailbreak too, without a custom app, entirely from a shortcut lol)
Definitely not convenient, at all, but it is possible kinda!
BeaconDBMar 17
s1278Mar 17

Some progress mapping for @beacondb using NeoStumbler on my Pixel 9 running GrapheneOS :D

It ain't much but it's honest work (and I can already use it to get pretty good geolocation accuracy on my Laptop running Fedora Linux)

BeaconDBMar 16
Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ ಎನ್Mar 16
Got most of Langkawi's popular routes covered. Orange is yesterday and purple is today. #opendata @beacondb
BeaconDBMar 14
Marcus LundbladMar 12

Blog post on Maps and the upcoming GNOME 48 release

https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2025/03/maps-and-gnome-48.html

#gnomemaps #gnome #mapstodon #transitous

Maps and GNOME 48

    In a few days it's time for the GNOME 48 release. So it's time to make a wrap-up with the last changes in Maps for the next release.  Re...

BeaconDBMar 14
BitPirateMar 14

TIL about @beacondb

This is one of those projects that reminds me of the early days of #openstreetmap, when the dataset was sparse and parts of the road network weren't fully mapped.

Contributing is really easy. Just run one of the apps listed on the homepage and take a walk around your neighbourhood.

https://beacondb.net/

beaconDB

BeaconDBMar 14
0xfbMar 14
Within 3 weeks in Brazil I collected about 15000 WLAN access points and 1100 cells (with 20000 measurements) and uploaded them to @beacondb.
Most of them were completely new to #BeaconDB. Now, a much larger part of the state of São Paulo is covered by BeaconDB.
BeaconDBMar 13

@sim6 has written a patch that should help remove outliers and increase the reliability of both WiFi and cell tower based estimates! ❤️

If you notice that BeaconDB seems to be returning an IP-based estimate when you expect it to have enough data to give a more accurate WiFi based estimate, please let me know so I can take a further look :)