title: How can I use a MAC address to get a GPS coordinate?
body: <p>I know services exist such as skyhook, but I simply can not find an API or information on how to use it. I have a list of MAC addresses from wireless networks, or even wired networks, and I want to get triangulated GPS coordinates of the user. </p>
  
  <p>EDIT: Somebody mentioned that you can't get MAC address information? From Windows 7 I did "netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid" and I see the below. I assume the address in BSSID is static and at least correlates?</p>
  
  <pre><code>SSID 6 : linksys
  Network type            : Infrastructure
  Authentication          : WPA-Personal
  Encryption              : TKIP
  BSSID 1                 : 00:0c:41:19:56:7b
       Signal             : 15%
       Radio type         : 802.11g
       Channel            : 6
       Basic rates (Mbps) : 1 2 5.5 11
       Other rates (Mbps) : 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54
  
  SSID 7 : KSJ
  Network type            : Infrastructure
  Authentication          : Open
  Encryption              : WEP
  BSSID 1                 : 00:18:01:95:e7:ca
       Signal             : 30%
       Radio type         : 802.11g
       Channel            : 2
       Basic rates (Mbps) : 1 2 5.5 11
       Other rates (Mbps) : 6 9 12 18 22 24 36 48 54
  
  SSID 8 : benchhome
  Network type            : Infrastructure
  Authentication          : WPA-Personal
  Encryption              : TKIP
  BSSID 1                 : 00:0f:b5:e3:2e:24
       Signal             : 23%
       Radio type         : 802.11g
       Channel            : 11
       Basic rates (Mbps) : 1 2 5.5 11
       Other rates (Mbps) : 6 9 12 18 24 36 48 54
  </code></pre>