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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    It’s a project that’s compiling a map of wifi/cell tower/bluetooth locations for location services. GPS doesn’t work well in some cases (indoors, remote locations, areas with tall buildings) and so big companies have built similar databases to get accurate location information. For the most part, those ones are proprietary / private. This project is intended to be a public / openly licensed version of that, while also processing the data to strip out potentially private information