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I would like to ask, what practical uses do similar data have in production scenarios? For example, to count the density of a crowd? Verify the authenticity of a company or for other purposes?


Location backup for where GPS isn't reliable. If you've got the signal strength of a few networks with known coordinates, triangulating can give enough of a location guide to be significantly better than nothing.




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