[OSM-dev] indoor wifi geopositionning - openstreetmap precision, collaborators?

[John Smith]

2009/11/30 Jonathan-David SCHRODER <jonathan.schroder at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
> I am working on a student project (team of 6 people) whose goal is to build
> a solution allowing mobile devices to display indoor data along with wifi
> geopositioning. (I am willing citing this because contrary to
> http://www.micello.com or http://www.aws.cit.ie/mapume/ who we just found
> about, we want to have something fully open source/free software).
> As part of this project, we have decided to use the openstreetmap server
> software technology.

There is also Skyhook Wireless, but it isn't free software either, but
is free to use in free software.

They send trucks around and do fairly precise signal mapping, they
care more about how the signal propagates than where the AP is.