[GSM] Geolocating

Feydreva feydreva at lsu.fr
Wed Apr 23 19:40:14 CEST 2008


Have a look at theses 2 projects :
http://www.eppenga.com/gg-tracker/
and
http://www.aspicore.com/en/tuotteet_tracker.asp?tab=2&sub=2

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Sander Hoentjen <sander at hoentjen.eu>
wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:17 +0200, Marc-Olivier Barre wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Lucas Bonnet <lbonnet at bearstech.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >  Hello guys,
> > >
> > >   during one of my presentation of the Openmoko project, I mentionned
> > >  the ability to know which GSM cell the Neo is connected to. This
> allows
> > >  some approximate geolocating, provided you know the position of the
> GSM
> > >  cells. It could be useful in an urban environment, where GPS isn't
> very
> > >  helpful (walls, narrow streets, etc.).
> > Well the key concept here is "provided you know the position of the
> > GSM cells". Now, you might try to call you operators customer support
> > asking them "Hi, could you send me a copy of your hardware database
> > please ?", but I doubt you would get a positive answer, *if* they even
> > bother to answer...
>
> I think http://celldb.org/ is trying to solve this problem.
>
> Sander
>
>
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