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Sensorvault is an internal Google database that contains records of users' historical geo-location data. [1]: 1 [2]It has been used by law enforcement to execute a geo-fence warrant and to search for all devices within the vicinity of a crime, (within a geo-fenced area) [1]: 1 [3]: 1 [2] and after looking at those devices' movements and narrowing those devices down to potential suspects or ...
The use of a geofence is called geofencing, and one example of use involves a location-aware device of a location-based service (LBS) user entering or exiting a geofence. Geofencing approach is based on the observation that users move from one place to another and then stay at that place for a while.
Geofencing involves creating a virtual geographic boundary (a geofence), enabling software to trigger a response when a device enters or leaves a particular area. [3] Geopositioning is a pre-requisite for geofencing.
GYP (generate your projects) is an obsolete build automation tool created in 2011 by Google. [1] Its purpose was to generate native IDE project files (such as Visual Studio and Xcode ) for building the Chromium web browser and is licensed as open source software using the BSD software license .
A 2021 transparency report showed that 25% of data requests from law enforcement to Google were geo-fence data requests. [5] Google is the most common recipient of geo-fence warrants and the main provider of such data, [ 4 ] [ 6 ] although companies including Apple , Snapchat , Lyft , and Uber have also received such warrants.
The W3C Geolocation API is also supported by Opera Mobile 10.1 – available for Android and Symbian devices (S60 generations 3 & 5) since 24 November 2010. [9] Browsers initially allowed access to the API in insecure contexts, but in the context of Secure Contexts, [ 10 ] browsers, e.g., Chrome, [ 11 ] now generally require a secure connection.
In 2020, Azure Maps Visual for Power BI was released, integrating location-based features and mapping capabilities into Microsoft's business intelligence software. [12] An elevation API (which was later retired), [13] geolocation services, [14] and an iOS [15] and Android software development kit [16] were introduced in 2021.
The Wind Data Generator (WDG) is a wind energy software tool capable of running WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting Model) [1] model to create a wind atlas and to generate wind data at any location, any height of interest for any resolution from 3 km to 10 km.