Ichnaea

Ichnaea is a service to provide geolocation coordinates from other sources of data (Bluetooth, cell or WiFi networks, GeoIP, etc.). It is using both Cell-ID and Wi-Fi based positioning (WPS) approaches.

Mozilla hosts an instance of this service, called the Mozilla Location Service (MLS).

You can interact with the service in two ways:

• If you know where you are, submit information about the radio environment to the service to increase its quality.
• or locate yourself, based on the radio environment around you.

About the name

In Greek mythology, Ichnaea (Iknaia) means “the tracker”.

Table of contents

• Using the Service
• Services API
• Data Export
• Installation
• Algorithms
• Internal Code API
• Glossary
• Changelog

Development

All source code is available on github under ichnaea.

The developers of ichnaea can frequently be found on the Mozilla IRC network in the #geo channel.

License

The ichnaea source code is offered under the Apache License 2.0.