[Geowanking] Jon Udell: A conversation with Cyril Houri about annotating the planet using a GPS/WiFi/cellular hybrid

[Schuyler Erle]

* On 12-Oct-2006 at  8:30AM PDT, Joe Germuska said:
> 
> Today's podcast with Cyril Houri, founder and CEO of Mexens
> Technologies, advances a story I began telling in early 2005 about
> annotating the planet. The problem was, and still is, that there
> aren't very many people with GPS devices. Cyril's system, Navizon,
> aims to bootstrap us out of that situation. The idea is to incent
> people carrying the fairly small number of GPS-equipped mobile
> devices (PocketPCs, cellphones) to map the locations of both WiFi
> access points and cell towers. Then people using vast numbers of
> devices on WiFi or cellular networks can use location-aware
> applications without having to own GPS gear.

What's the license on the data that users collect, Jon? Do the users
own it? Does Mexens own it but publish it under a free license that
guarantees its reuse? Or do the users simply collect it for Mexens for
free? What's to prevent a Gracenoting? Is this hacking or
hacksploitation? Hmm?

SDE