Comments on: Navizon pays users to help build location database http://gigaom.com/mobile/navigon-pays-yo/ Sun, 27 May 2012 02:10:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Simon http://gigaom.com/mobile/navigon-pays-yo/#comment-409907 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:41:14 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/navigon-pays-yo#comment-409907 You don’t actually have to pay cash for the full version – just collect 10,000 points using the ‘lite’ version and redeem them for the $10 upgrade fee, so then if you find you can’t collect enough points to make it worthwhile, you won’t be out of pocket…

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While I’ll prob download the light version to help them build their database (like Kevin, I believe in contributing for the greater good), I’m really not sure what the $10 app gets me. Buddy tracking? Not sure many (any?) of my friends REALLY are keen for that – I can send them a message of “where are you”.

I do think that there are some fantastic location based apps that are yet to be built, but at this point I don’t think this is one. Let us know if you find otherwise, Kevin!

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CNet reported that Skyhook has been sending wardriving cars around the country collecting APs for a few years now. Now that their database is at critical mass, getting users to grow/maintain the data organically is a genius move.

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