Mozilla Location Service (MLS)

What is Mozilla Location Service?

The Mozilla Location Service (MLS) is an open service which lets devices determine their location based on network infrastructure like WiFi access points and cell towers.

Why Mozilla made it?

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•Provide a highly accurate geolocation service for any device and in any country, based on publicly sent signal information (like cell towers, Wi-Fi, IP addresses).

•Improve the privacy aspects of the geolocation service compared to the current market offerings.

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Get involved!

As an individual

You can join our active community and start mapping the wireless networks in your neighborhood or contribute to one of the client applications.

As a developer

You can directly use the service or contribute to the development of the service itself.

Install the client applications

FxStumbler For Firefox OSFxStumbler For Firefox OS

Download From here: Download From here: https://github.com/clochix/FxStumbhttps://github.com/clochix/FxStumb

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Install the client applications

Mozilla Stumbler For Android Mozilla Stumbler For Android

Enjoy competing against others on our leaderboard!

Bug reporting

Bugs can be reported in the general Bugzilla tracker under the Mozilla Services :: Location component (for legal, operations, or unknown category).

Communication

•Join the #geo channel on Mozilla's IRC server (irc.mozilla.org).

•You can subscribe to the mailing list at https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation

•Join our facebook group: www. fb.com/MozGeo

•Github: https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler

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