<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>So how can you tell if your AP is already in the google database?</span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial"><div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Todd Walton <tdwalton@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug@cialug.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, November 15, 2011 7:37 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
[Cialug] _nomap for wireless networks<br></font><br>
Google starts a "robots.txt" for wireless networks:<br>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/greater-choice-for-wireless-access.html<br><br>Google collects information about a person's location using various<br>markers, including nearby wireless networks. Now, the owner of a<br>wireless network can tell Google not to use his/her access point as a<br>marker by appending "_nomap" to the network name.<br><br>Why would a person want to do that? What's the benefit? What's the<br>drawback of letting someone else determine their location by your<br>network?<br><br>--<br>Todd<br>_______________________________________________<br>Cialug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org" ymailto="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org">Cialug@cialug.org</a><br>http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug<br><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>