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Alternative network location provider for Android, with plugin interface to easily integrate third-party location providers.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 0 stories, 12 comments · first 2016-11-29 · latest 2024-05-11

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  1. That already exists. https://github.com/microg/UnifiedNlp Also, if you disable the Google location provider, which is opt-in on device setup, the Play services location APIs fall back to GPS.
    comment by lern_too_spel · 2024-05-11 · in Huawei breaks free from Google ecosystem with homegrown HarmonyOS
  2. See UnifiedNLP ( https://github.com/microg/UnifiedNlp/blob/master/README.md ) <ctrl-f> down to "List of backends for geolocation".
    comment by tyingq · 2021-09-16 · in The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history
  3. …Google Play Services) includes a free and open source network location provider called UnifiedNlp: https://github.com/microg/UnifiedNlp UnifiedNlp allows you to choose the backends your Android device uses to determine the location,…
    comment by commoner · 2021-05-29 · in Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private
  4. …Google Services for Android) tries to do that at least in some areas, e.g. the location provider: https://github.com/microg/UnifiedNlp
    comment by traspler · 2021-03-09 · in How to 'un-Google' your Chromium browser experience
  5. …services this project used to replace Google's backends and found this after a bit of searching: https://github.com/microg/UnifiedNlp/wiki/Backends . IMO, some sort of summary of this information would be useful to have on the homepage.
    comment by saagarjha · 2020-11-30 · in A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space
  6. UnifiedNlp for the win :) https://github.com/microg/UnifiedNlp
    comment by CameronNemo · 2020-10-18 · in Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
  7. …offline by downloading freely licensed database files from Mozilla, OpenCellID, or lacells.db. [1] https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_UnifiedNlp
    comment by Fnoord · 2019-06-17 · in Study finds that a GPS outage would cost $1B per day
  8. …towers and correlates it to location, it does not appear to implement networked assisted GPS. [1] https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_UnifiedNlp
    comment by kop316 · 2018-12-10 · in Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds
  9. …towers and correlates it to location, it does not appear to implement networked assisted GPS. [1] https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_UnifiedNlp
    comment by kop316 · 2018-12-10 · in Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds
  10. …as a location service for Android, for example using UnifiedNlp on microG as middleware: https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_UnifiedNlp
    comment by vinay427 · 2017-04-09 · in Whereami – Using WiFi signals and machine learning to predict where you are
  11. …Some of the alternative android location services are at least functioning for technical users. ( https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_UnifiedNlp ) We return to my issue: does it being difficult and yet to be achieved mean that…
    comment by rmxt · 2016-12-28 · in How GPS became a human tracking mechanism
  12. …ago, could use various data sources including Mozilla's, Apple's, OpenWlanMap, and others. ---- [0] https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_UnifiedNlp/
    comment by hackuser · 2016-11-29 · in Jolla’s Sailfish certified as Russian government’s first ‘Android alternative’