Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago
Michael, first of all thanks for that really detailed suggestions!!
The suggestions are very good and I would agree on nearly all points. So to
state it very clearly, server-side filtering is the preferred way with only few
exceptions (e.g. _nomap wifis which can be safely discarded on client side).
The current approach is a work-around as we lacking manpower to relaunch the
server-side processes. I guess we're in desperate need for some helping hands
to improve the website and the server side processing as Mick is very, very
busy at the moment. Anybody experienced in server-side frameworks (or even the
typical website technology) is very welcome!
So to provide a short-term solution I implemented some basic client-side
filtering, accepting we'll get false positives by exactly the arguments you
mentioned. I tried to judge carefully, before adding wifis to the list: e.g.
after my highway rides I analysed tracked wifis manually to identify moving
wifis, e.g. the long haul buses.
At the moment this is pure manual work, so no automatic in place. Your
eagle-eyes spotted the short-comings nevertheless :-) (e.g. Asus and some
Netgear devices made it to the list, although being very ambiguous in fact...)
Given all your good suggestions, let's keep this issue sticky until we
succeeded in implementing server-side filtering..
Original comment by wish7code
on 31 Oct 2013 at 8:28
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
mich...@vonglasow.com
on 27 Oct 2013 at 8:25