Thanks for explaining, uhtu

abuse prevention is the singlemost important reason

That's interesting. Can you elaborate on that? I've been trying to think what that might mean (in context of read-only access), but can't guess what it is...

The core issue has not changed, you need a wigle account to use the data, and be bound by the eula. The reason I posted twice even after getting this answer was because I couldn't figure out the point (as in why require the EULA)... but having thought of it, I'm guessing there's the financial side:...

I guess the silence means positioning using wigle.net (without logging in) is out of the question then. Not that bobzilla wasn't clear about that that in his answer... I really think that an open MAC address location database would be a very, very useful idea (especially as mobile device popularity ...

Thanks for the reply, bobzilla. Whatever you do is fine as long as you follow the eula . If you have people create accounts and login to do queries, that'd be fine. Using one login to re-vend data isn't, however. This would imply that the answer to my second question is that a wigle.net account will...

Hello, I'm involved with geoclue (a geographic information framework for linux) development and I'm trying to find out if wigle.net database would be a suitable data source for us. Some background: geoclue is a Free Software service/library that usually runs on a mobile computer. It uses several bac...