Re: Tutorial: Query the Apple database with Python for your access point BSSID

Marian <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.internet.wireless,alt.comp.microsoft.windows
Organization BWH Usenet Archive (https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com)
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Chris wrote:
> Jeff Liebermann <[email protected]> wrote:  
>> 
>> I can't determine if either company has a reason to have a longer
>> Lat/Long.  However, notice the number of digits in the Lat, which are
>> mostly zeros, except for the last digit:
>>   Latitude: 32.459438320000004
>> I don't know what they're doing, but it looks like they're using the
>> Latitude to store some kind of data or ID.  There are several other
>> entries in the data that show a similar pattern of 8 places to the
>> right of the decimal point for useful data followed by 6 zeros and 1
>> numeric digit.
> 
> These are from loss of precision in the storing of floating-point numbers
> in python. They aren't real. The source data will not include all the
> zeros.

The precision is a red herring, in my opinion, since the fact that you
can't get out of the Apple WPS database even though you followed all of
Apple's legally binding published policies is the main privacy issue.

Apple's decision is legally, morally & ethically reprehensible, so I will
start working on getting Apple to change their decision any way that I can.

However, to the point of the raw precision in the Apple WPS database, I've
modified the open source Apple bssid locator tools to report raw integer
values in addition to conversion to the human-readable GPS coordinates.

Here are raw/converted values for the bssid lookup on the access point
located near 4302 Josey Cir, Shreveport, LA 71109 (as a random AP lookup).

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