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

On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:17:06 +0100, "R.Wieser" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Arlen,
>
>
>[quote=me]
>> Tell that to all the poor city-dwellers who predominanty rent they places.
>>
>> Who are, by the way, in close proximity and often stacked several
>> layers ontop of each other.
>
>As my thoughts went over to the "well off" city-dwellers who own the
>appartments they live in, I realized that they too often live stacked that
>way, sometimes in high-rises of 20 stories or more, with penthouses ontop.
>
>Your Apple-database location data in such cases ?  Useless.
>
>Regards,
>Rudy Wieser

Adding location information to DNS, DHCP, SNMP etc have been proposed.
Go to:
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/search/rfc_search.php>
and search for "location".  You will find 165 RFC's involving
location.

An early scheme is RFC 1712
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1712>
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/pdfrfc/rfc1712.txt.pdf>
The location data was limited to "level", which translates to floor
number, and "room" which provides horizontal location data for a
specific "level".  Note that the data does not need to be derived from
GPS data.  Since it doesn't change (often), it could be entered into
the database when the DNS record was created.

Among the later schemes is RFC 5870
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo_URI_scheme>
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/pdfrfc/rfc5870.txt.pdf>


-- 
Jeff Liebermann                 [email protected]
PO Box 272      http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272   AE6KS    831-336-2558