The Mozilla Location Service (MLS) is an open service which lets devices determine their location based on network infrastructure like WiFi access points and cell towers.

This open service relies on a community of contributors who are contributing in many different ways like -

Individuals collecting data

Currently more than 5 thousand individuals are helping us collect data for MLS. Find all individuals at https://location.services.mozilla.com/leaders

Developers using and innovating on top of the service

We have MozStumblr app for android Aurora versions of Firefox for Android includes a way to contribute data and enhance this service. Developers are working hard to integrate this service in Firefox OS. We have FxStumbler app for Firefox OS operating system. Recent versions of Firefox Desktop allow you to use this service instead of the default location provider. Find complete info at https://location.services.mozilla.com/apps

Organizations sharing information about their infrastructure

Recently it was announced that Fedora project is going to use the Mozilla Location Service (MLS) as the default geolocation provider for their Firefox Desktop packages.