SKYHOOK Wireless. SkyHook and SimpleGeo Present SpotRank, Now You Can Always Find. In an under-appreciated announcement Skyhook Wireless released a huge set of location trend data. SpotRank, as the data is called, shares out ranking trends for locations around the world. The maps above show the SpotRanks of those locations. Skyhook has been collecting look-ups for the past five years. CEO Ted Morgan shared these stats “We average about 300 million location requests a day and our reference database has over 200 million wifi access points and over 2 million cell towers.” In total Skyhook has over 40 billion data points that are used to derive As of right now SimpleGeo is the only way to access this data. I spoke with Matt Galligan and Joe Stump, the founders of SimpleGeo, about the new service and the SpotRank data.
For each time-location pair there are four different datapoints. Worldside Rank – How one Spot compares to all other Spots worldwide. City Rank – The City Rank illustrates how one Spot’s city compares to other cities at any given time. 3) I want more ranks! Skyhook's CEO gives me inside skinny about location software inside your smart phone.