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New cells contributions
Posted in: Project Opencellid by admin on 21 April 2008 | No Comments
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
OpenCellID re-integrate GsmLoc data
Posted in: Project Opencellid by admin on 4 April 2008 | 3 Comments
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
Posted in: Tutorial Opencellid by admin on 3 April 2008 | 14 Comments
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), but this may change in the near future.
The idea is do it in a transparent way for end user, thanks to 8Motions or other applications. This is not a new idea, as Google probably made the same for his GoogleMap mobile application. The only issue, is that the application needs to access to two informations:
- the cellID
- the GPS position
and for now, no handset provides this. N95 for instance, haves a GPS but does not provide CellID information in JavaME. Latest SonyEricsson phone, provides CellID, but not GPS position. I think that new GPS enabled handsets will provide both, but for new you need to use a SonyEricsson phone and an external bluetooth receiver….
You can check the result of collected data on the OpenCellID.org web site….
There were other initiatives like this, but the idea is to provide the Datas as an OpenSource information. The code of the project is hosted on Google Code.
Identificateurs Technorati : cellid, mobile, opencellid, gsm, towers