CloudServices/Location/Software

Software

The most popular way to contribute to the project is downloading Firefox for Android and enabling the MLS contribution option in its setting, as detailed below.

Firefox for Android

• Firefox for Android includes a way to contribute data and enhance the service. You can enable the feature by opening the Settings menu and in the Mozilla section under Data Choices check the Mozilla Location Services option.
• Once enabled data will be send to the service anonymously. Enabling this option has virtually no impact on battery life. Data is only send back when being connected to a WiFi network, so there is no impact on a cell data plan.

Mozilla Stumbler for Android

• Mozilla Stumbler is an open-source wireless network scanner that collects GPS and wireless network data for our crowd-sourced location database.
• Available in the Google Play Store
• Available on F-Droid
• GitHub code repository

Firefox Desktop

• Firefox Desktop 36 and later allow you to use the service instead of the default location provider. In about:config change the geo.wifi.uri setting to:

   https://location.services.mozilla.com/v1/geolocate?key=%MOZILLA_API_KEY%

Firefox OS

• FxStumbler is a prototype of a stumbling app for Firefox OS.
• OS level support for stumbling is underway and will appear in a future version of Firefox OS.

Android

• libstumbler is an embeddable Android library supporting both stumbling and location lookups.
• Ichnaea NLP Backend is a UnifiedNlp backend that uses MLS to resolve locations. The NLP backend requires XPosed to be installed. As of 2015-06-03, this seems to be broken for Android 5.0 and 5.1 ART runtimes.

Linux

• GeoClue is a D-Bus service that provides location information, using for example GPS daemons but also MLS.
• KDE Plasma Desktop uses MLS to get country level and precise geolocation information.

iOS

• See our FAQ on iOS