n/nomap.md: add practical reasons such as relocating/moving APs

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## Why?
Privacy. WiGLE.net may point your home directly just by entering the SSID and
who knows how many similar services there are. While I have been thinking of
this since 2015, there is at least one case where this has been used in 2018:
**For privacy.** WiGLE.net may point your home directly just by entering the
SSID and who knows how many similar services there are. While I have been
thinking of this since 2015, there is at least one case where this has been used
in 2018:
- [Christian Haschek: The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet](https://blog.haschek.at/2018/the-curious-case-of-the-RasPi-in-our-network.html)
@ -76,6 +77,20 @@ and Gaza.
- [KrebsOnSecurity: Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag](https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/why-your-wi-fi-router-doubles-as-an-apple-airtag/)
**For practical reasons.** If you have ever _moved_ taking your WiFi access
point with you, you may have noticed Google/Apple Maps and all locating you to
your _old home_, which may be annoying with route planner apps and similar.
To fix this, you can either append `_nomap` to your SSID to remove it from the
positioning process, try going outside with maps open and hoping it will update
your location or wait patiently for the location services to realize your move.
Another occassionally happening event is the _WiFi AP moving_ by itself.
Location services may blocklist moving access points without static location, or
you may find that on the move you always locate to a home point, while it would
be more useful to just `_nomap` so other location sources would be used
immediately.
## `_optout`
Legacy from 2015-2016. Used to be part of Microsoft WiFi Sense that shared WiFi