How is the Est. Lat and Est. Long calculated?

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Is it just the avarage of all coordinate datasets for this MAC or is the signal strength integrated in the calculation? Do you know how accurate your calculations are?
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Oh you, look at the FAQ:
The "triangulation" is actually just an average of the latitudes and longitudes gathered using the signal strength (squared) as a weight. This is probably more correctly called "weighted-centroid trilateration." This assumes that signal strength will change at the inverse square of the distance. This is reasonable as long is you don't get a one-sided view of the network (i.e. only sample it from one side) since it will be skewed in that direction.
But I don't know if it's just copied from the internet or if it's actually used by wigle.
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that remains accurate - we know that that's subject to arterial bias, and doesn't use variations in signal strength, but it seems reliable based on the maps.

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