Archive for avril, 2008
New cells contributions
Good news, OpenCellID is taking off in a great way. Nick Gering from Device54 contributed by providing some informations about some cells located in London and Barcelona! So thanks Nick for the contribution
Tutorial: loading a KML file using the J2memap library
Ok, following some requests, here is another tutorial on how to use the J2memap library. First, note that if you just want to display a KML file on mobile, you can use 8Motions directly, no need to create your own application.
Anyway, here we are going to show you how to create a very simple app [...]
OpenCellID re-integrate GsmLoc data
Jon Spinney from Maperture blog pointed on my previous post the effort of Christopher Schmidt from GSMLoc to create the same kind of database. So thanks to both of them, I’ve integrated the previous database of GPS cell, and we are now at 15301 cells covered with 541728 mesurements…
Introducing OpenCellId
Here is a project that I wanted to introduce to you: OpenCellID.The purpose of this project is to create an OpenSource database of GSM cells.
Why? Because this can be used as a “cheap” way to get your location. There is not a lot of phones that provides this access to JavaMe application (mostly SonyEricsson), [...]