XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: boogabooga@crazyhat.net   
      
   In the last episode of , "Alice J."   
    said:   
      
   >cl wrote in message q6r3oc-rmu.ln1@esprimo.zbmc.eu:   
   >   
   >> GPS off, how does Google associate my neighbours SSID/MAC with me?   
   >> I.e. how does Google know it's next door?   
   >>   
   >> ... anyway my mobile is only turned on when I'm away from home,   
   >> there's very poor mobile coverage at our house so there's very little   
   >> point in it being turned on.   
   >   
   >I don't profess to be the expert but I *think* the problem isn't   
   >what *you* do, but what your stoooopid neighbors do.   
      
   It's not really about "stoooopid neighbors", you're the one broadcasting   
   your wireless on to their property, if you stop doing that, you have   
   nothing to worry about.   
      
   >Assume they have everything set at the default, then I think what   
   >people are telling us is that our neighbors are throwing us under   
   >the bus by associating *their* GPS location with *our SSID/MAC*.   
   >   
   >Since they must be within a few hundred feet in order to even *see*   
   >our SSID/MAC, then essentially their GPS location is our GPS location.   
      
   Yes, although if you're in an suburban area the geo-databases can   
   probably figure out the order of access points as you drive down the   
   road by looking at relative signal strengths from known positions.   
      
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