How does WiGLE Proccessing Really Work?

[TeaEnjoyer76]

I am a newbie here (and apparently joined right in time for a processing queue bottleneck) and I have started to wonder how it really all works behind the curtain.
Mainly how does the processing... process work?

What does Archiving mean? What does Trilaterating mean? Geoindexing? So on and so forth.

Thanks from a recent newbie

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[arkasha]

It's a multi-stage process, some of which happens in parallel, some in series (so we can be fair about stats, scores, and discovery)

A brief and mostly accurate list of the processing states:

Step 1. Archiving: the files are moved into position for processing and tested for Iocaine powder.

Step 2. Waiting: Sitting in the waiting room. Why? Because we can't get out.

Step 3. Parsing: checking the file format, and breaking it into pieces suitable for further processing

Step 4. Trilaterating: look at all the other places the network has been seen, make clusters of observations, pick the best cluster, and find the middle based on signal strength.

Step 5. Stats: look at what we've done, and quantify it by picking the right numbers, like in the TV show Severance.

Step 6. Cataloging: updating all the stats and search tabulation pipelines (while doing some shopping).

Step 7. Geoindexing: Guessing addresses for those locations we figured out in Trilateration, storing them in a way that's easy to ask for.

[Wolfess]

I miss going for a nice warwalk and being able to take a long shower and snack then pool over my new results on the map an hour later

[pejacoby]

Man if you could squeeze all that idle shopping and TV time out of the processing path things would be SO much faster