[Cialug] _nomap for wireless networks

[Tom Sellers]

So how can you tell if your AP is already in the google database?


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From: Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 7:37 AM
Subject: [Cialug] _nomap for wireless networks

Google starts a "robots.txt" for wireless networks:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/greater-choice-for-wireless-access.html

Google collects information about a person's location using various
markers, including nearby wireless networks.  Now, the owner of a
wireless network can tell Google not to use his/her access point as a
marker by appending "_nomap" to the network name.

Why would a person want to do that?  What's the benefit?  What's the
drawback of letting someone else determine their location by your
network?

--
Todd
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