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by vitovito 4516 days ago
It's been done at least a couple of times at MIT:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/fadel/wivi/

http://witrack.csail.mit.edu/

And at University of Washington:

http://wisee.cs.washington.edu/

And you can check the references of those papers for other sources.

Now, whether an app on a smartphone can get enough RF data to do it, is probably an open question, as all of those projects used something custom or other.