Archive for opencellid

WhereRYou: OpenCellID Blackberry client

WhereRYou is an OpenCellID Blackberry client, created by Aris Volcoff. This application works in the background and use the OpenCellID Backend, so not really graphical, but here is a small snapshot:
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OpenCellID client for SonyEricsson phones with sources

Pär Bertilsson have created a nice client that can be used on SonyEricsson phone that use an external bluetooth receiver to fill the OpenCellID database! Again, thanks to SonyEricsson to be the first one to implement an easy way to access to CellID from the phone, and thanks to Pär for creating this nice client [...]

OpenCellID Client for Windows Mobile: OpenCellClient

Welcome to the latest OpenCellID client, running on Windows mobile: OpenCellClient.

This project will be integrated with another project from the same team: RemoteTracker.
Enjoy and thanks for this contribution.

WhereAmI: new Blackberry application for OpenCellID

New application for blackberry from Ari Volcoff, using OpenCellID: WhereAmI!

Windows Mobile client for OpenCellID

Just forgot to say this, but dale lane created a Windows mobile client to fill OpenCellID database. All the informations are available on his blog: Programmatically getting the CellID from your Windows Mobile phone. The post contains also some great informations related to CellID for Windows Mobile, informations which are not always so easy to [...]

Phonelocator joining OpencellID

Phonelocator just joined OpenCellID, and submitted millions of mesures and ten thousands of Cells! (see our stats )

Phonelocator is a native S60 realtime GPS tracking application for Nokia
S60 phones developed by Birkett Enterprise Ltd. It allows you to view the
location of your phone and a trail of where it has been using this
website. Phonelocator has [...]

Article on MobiForge about OpenCellID

I’ve written an article for the excellent mobiforge.com site, which is visible here:
Adding location to a non GPS phone: introducing OpenCellID

Two new functions added in OpenCellID API

Just added two new useful functions in the OpenCellIDAPI:

measure/list to list your measures
and
measure/delete to delete on measure
This is usefull if you made some errors…
Also note that entry with either lat or lon equals to 0 will not be accepted, as this is a frequent error…

Interview for Telematicsupdate about OpenCellID

Following conference Telematicsupdate conference about LBS, I’ve been interviewed by Thomas about OpenCellid and impact on the industry. Result is here: Towards free location on all devices.

Adding location to a non GPS phone : using OpenCellID

1) Introduction
In this two parts article, we will introduce mobile positioning with CellID, and the open source database of CellIDs: OpenCellID. We will see how to use it through a simple sample. The second part will demonstrate how to use OpenCellID with OpenStreeMap and the 8Motion library to create a full interactive mobile mapping experience [...]