Comments on: Google Maps with even smaller magical blue circles

By: Mac Morrison

Mac Morrison — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:08:22 +0000

solar flares?
or just blame boris?

By: DanLane

DanLane — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:02:11 +0000

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

By: Mac Morrison

Mac Morrison — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:36:21 +0000

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

By: Kip Hakes

Kip Hakes — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:20:02 +0000

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

By: Mac Morrison aka mostlythis

Mac Morrison aka mostlythis — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:08:22 +0000

solar flares?
or just blame boris?

By: Mac Morrison aka mostlythis

Mac Morrison aka mostlythis — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:08:22 +0000

solar flares?
or just blame boris?

By: DanLane

DanLane — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:02:11 +0000

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

By: Mac Morrison aka mostlythis

Mac Morrison aka mostlythis — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:36:21 +0000

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

By: Kip Hakes

Kip Hakes — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:20:02 +0000

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

By: DanLane

DanLane — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:02:50 +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!

By: Mike42

Mike42 — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:48:20 +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.

Â£0.02.

/m