Status of GSM base station positioning services & clients

Klaus 'mrmoku' Kurzmann mok at mnet-online.de
Mon May 10 22:01:37 CEST 2010


Am Montag, 10. Mai 2010 21:42:03 schrieb Petr Vanek:
> >> Are there clients to position the user based on the GSM base
> >> stations, with on- or offline databases?
> >
> >Yes, but none which are really "production ready", AFAIK. I mean,
> >packaged, tested, ready for end user. Nevertheless, it is supposed to
> >work at least basically.
> >
> >> It'd be great to be able to detect the approximate location from GSM
> >> signal and then hook up to GPS faster..
> >
> >Baruch did some work on the vala implemented openBmap-locator code. I
> >am not sure what is the status of it. The code is located on the
> >openBmap sourceforge git repository.
> >
> >Onen
> 
> i tried logging by using the openBmap logger but it hasn't been updated
> to the new fsogsmd api yet :/

actually... the monitoring API was still missing in fsogsmd. Mickey comitted 
it yesterday... or the day before... don't remember exactly. And the good 
thing is that the API should be the same. Time to try again :-)

> 
> Petr

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