Retiring the Mozilla Location Service

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Retiring the Mozilla Location Service

Patent infringement threat(Skyhook Holdings, Inc), lack of further investment seems to have been the reason of killing the service around 2021. It seems google location service seems to be the only player in town(other than OpenCellID, which I do not have experience with).

https://web.archive.org/web/20240316150827/https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065Open link View original on lemmy.ml

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woelkchen

lemmy.world

MLS never had an open source WiFi database. Only the phone cells were public.

Safipok reply

lemmy.ml

My interest was more on the point that their service was/is used by so many open source projects. Would be interesting to see what alternatives they replace it with.

woelkchen reply

lemmy.world

Would be interesting to see what alternatives they replace it with.

Years ago, there was a UnifiedNLP back-end for Android that used Apple's service: https://github.com/microg/AppleWifiNlpBackend

Back then it worked fine. No idea about today. That repo isn't maintained any longer.

le_saucisson_masquay reply

sh.itjust.works

It’s working.