This can’t be true. They don’t have mine. Not in a jar, not otherwise.
Which reminds me that I should write a proposal to hire me at Google offices, specifically the GoogleEarth division, at Zurich.
Proposal in short: I’ll bring my own research ideas, they give me the computing power, humanity wins.
ETA:
You’ve seen that Android P has implemented Wi-Fi RTT (IEEE 802.11mc)?
This absolutely is high accuracy. And the database they’ve already got is surely a bit of help for building the next navigation breakthrough.
BTW, I haven’t seen their data nor their algorithms, but I would bet a crate of beer that wifi scanning actually improves location Gmaps accuracy, not only GPS fix.
I mean, we can even use cell phones to monitor rainfall* at unprecedented temporal and spatial resolution, so just imagining what you could do with Google’s WiFi plus GSM plus GPS data!
'* If you are interested in recent research, this is a start:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8365880
