https://beacondb.net/map/

Is that some kind of error, or was a bunch of data imported somehow?

For those unfamiliar with beacondb:

A privacy focused aGPS service written in Rust.

beaconDB aims to be an alternative to Mozilla Location Services that offers public domain dumps of its WiFi database.

When Mozilla Location Services shut down, it wasn’t able to publish the massive amount of access points its users had collected due to legal and privacy concerns. beaconDB obfuscates the data it releases so that it is not possible to reasonably estimate the location of a single device.

Data can be contributed by using apps such as NeoStumbler or TowerCollector1.

NOTE: beaconDB is still in development! Data exports are not ready yet. Some data is not yet obfuscated.

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    There’s a similar weird thing going on just north of Trondheim in the middle of Norway (and the middle of nowhere, really). I have no idea what it’s about. @[email protected] (not sure if Mastodon mentions work from PieFed)

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      Sometimes the radar weather in some areas will glitch out, I’ve seen a large swath of digital dots spread like a fan all over some cities. The image refreshes every couple of minutes, I believe, usually the glitch goes away after a couple of cycles.

      But what is glitching and why, I have no idea.