Cellhunter/OpenBmap

Sebastian Hammerl list-openmoko at omoco.de
Fri Jun 5 10:14:25 CEST 2009



Christian Gagneraud schrieb:
> Sebastian Hammerl wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>     
>
> Hi Sebastian,
>
>   
>> about the conversion I cannot help you because I don't know the openbmap
>> format.
>>
>> I talked with the openbmap owner about collaborating and got to the
>> result that it will only happen in the way that openbmap can use the
>> cellhunter data. I will not combine these two databases. There are some
>> mails here around with reasons for that.
>>     
>
> Yes, i've read about this, and i think that it's worth logging too 
> much data than not enough...
>
>   
>> But cellhunter will cooperate with opencellid.org which is as far as I
>> know the largest open cellid database. And my opinion is that everyone
>> should submit the data via cellhunter or something else to this database
>> so there is one global one. Only with a good cover all over the world
>> this data gets usefull.
>>     
>
> I've looked at opencellid.org website, and couldn't find any 
> information concerning the database, how can a user access the data 
> for example...
>
>   
there is an api documented at the homepage and you can download the raw 
data.
>> I just saw that openbmaps imports the opencellid data so there will be
>> the cellhunter data in in future.
>>     
>
> That's a good point, but for example, yesterday evening i've uploaded 
> lot of data (about 5 hours sampling every 10 seconds, while moving by 
> boat along the coast), and now i would like to reuse these data, 
> exploit them, plot them, ... with existing web application or by 
> writing my own tool, the API offered by cellhunter doesn't really fit 
> my needs that's why i want to have a look at OBM's API.
>
> Do you know how often CH is imported into opencellid, and how often 
> opencellid are imported into OBM?
>
>   
cellhunter ist not submitting to opencellid yet, because i have to
prepare the data for that but it will happen.

Sebastian
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
>
>   
>> Greetings, Sebastian
>> (CellHunter developer)
>>
>> Christian Gagneraud schrieb:
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm using cellhunter since few month, with which i have gathered some 
>>> data (1646 cells so far here in Ireland) and uploaded to their server.
>>> I would like to give a try with OpenBmap, is there a way to convert 
>>> data from CH to OBM and upload them to OBM server?
>>> I know that OBM log more details than CH but i guess that CH's data 
>>> are still usable by OBM.
>>>
>>> Generally speaking, what people think about these two project? And of 
>>> course the 2 billion euros/dollars question: Which one is the best?
>>> Does the 2 projects collaborate, if not are there any plan to do so?
>>>
>>> Chris.
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