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Re: Google Maps with even smaller magical blue circles

Mac Morrison — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:08:22 -0000

solar flares?
or just blame boris?

Re: Google Maps with even smaller magical blue circles

DanLane — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:02:11 -0000

No more so than I am any other morning when it usually works :P

Re: Google Maps with even smaller magical blue circles

Mac Morrison — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:36:21 -0000

were you in a boat - aka a big metal box fuckin with your signal.

Re: Google Maps with even smaller magical blue circles

Kip Hakes — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:20:02 -0000

LOL - me too! Had to resort to firing up Joikuspot and using my O2 data (sparingly!)

Re: Google Maps with even smaller magical blue circles

DanLane — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:02:50 -0000

All of which counts for shit when neither service works properly!

This morning BT OpenZone on the Thames refused to give me an IP (as it has done for the past 2 months) and Three's mobile broadband network wouldn't connect.

I resorted to using O2!!!.... you know something is wrong when O2 are the saviour!

Re: Google Maps with even smaller magical blue circles

Mike42 — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:48:20 -0000

Here's a data point for you: If you generously attribute every WiFi access point a 100m range, the total area covered by every publicly-accessable WiFi hotspot in the world still adds up to about the size of the Isle of Wight.

Of course WiFi location services use private ones as well, which are probably several orders of magnitude larger in number. But compared to mobile coverage it's a pathetically small area available for location services. And in dense metro areas where WiFi is dense cell spacing is normally a block or less, meaning cell location could/will do the job just as well, with far less battery drain.

£0.02.