General / Off-Topic Navizon - Real Life Mining for them that travel a bit.

[fozza]

Guys, not sure if this is gonna come across as a bit of a sales pitch.
Rest assured its not meant to...

Years ago I used a program on my Windows Mobile phone called Navizon.
The idea of it is that you let it run in the background of your phone and it happily goes around collecting cell site locations and wifi SSID's.
It then uses that data to help Sat Nav companies get better location fixes than just using GPS alone. (I'm guessing useful in places like London etc).

The mining part...
You collect points for each wifi point or cell tower you "discover" 3 for a new wifi point and 15 for a new cell tower etc. After you collect 10,000 points they automatically pay you $10 into your paypal account.

Ok it's not much but if you travel anyway or live in a city with many wifi points then it does not take long to get there.

It's fun and addictive and has been making me change my driving habits to drive through places I don't normally in order to mine the Wifi points etc, and I'm actually enjoying finding new villages and routes home that I otherwise would never have seen.

It's available on both Android and iPhone but I dont think the iphone lets you get points due to apple not letting you send data to the Navizon Servers. However it works great on Android .

Here's the sales pitch
I get a referral reward (some extra points) for anybody that signs up using the link below
If you want to give it a go then feel free to use this link or not.

Either way let me know what you think.. I am genuinely having lots of fun with it and it really appeals to my inner miner

In the month I have been doing it I have got 2 paypal rewards ($20)

From Navizon:
If you plan on registering, please do so by clicking on the link below:
http://my.navizon.com/Webapps/UserAdmin/register.aspx?referral_code=5D5757595D5E
That way, I can also earn some referral points since I'm the one who introduced you to the system ;-)

 

[fozza]

Grrrrrr

Just found out they now charge you $9 for the premium version to collect rewards. So your first reward is spent on the app itself.

That never used to be the case.

Anyway still worth it if you are travelling a lot.

 

[Listeri69]

Isn't this basically doing the same thing that google got fined for? sounds fun though, I had an idea for a travel book a few years back. unfortuantly that idea came to me in the USA and not in the UK where I would need to be to research and write it. Basically it was traveling all the white roads you see on a uk road map, I was going to call it 'where nobody goes' or 'Little white roads' and see if i could travel the length of the country barely touching a main road..... I know now i've mentioned it someone will probably steal it but I'm not likely to write it any time soon anyway