<br> This list are not helpfull, as they do not contains the callid, just the position of the tower. They could be used to obtain a better precision of a cell put this is not the case on opencellid.<br> All cells informations at OpenCellID are obtanined from publicly available data on your phone, and not based on commercial database. But of course, I am not a legal expert, but I think that there is no legal issue here.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/2/21 Tim Dobson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@tdobson.net">lists@tdobson.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Olivier Migeot wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors<br>
> <<a href="mailto:timo.lindfors@iki.fi">timo.lindfors@iki.fi</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> There are many creative commons licenses, some are permit commercial<br>
>> use, some don't.<br>
><br>
> If you go one click further, you'd discover that the said "Creative<br>
> Commons" licence chosed by OpenCellID is :<br>
> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/</a><br>
><br>
> So it should be ok for openbmap guys. That could explain the thing<br>
> about "merging" both databases. Any "official" insight on this? I've<br>
> been collecting cell information for a few weeks, with some home-made<br>
> script, and I'd like to know where I should commit them to.<br>
<br>
Please please forgive me if I'm wrong. I put my hand up and say I am not<br>
an expert in this area and COULD BE WRONG.<br>
<br>
opencellid has A LOT of data for the UK. In fact it wouldn't surprise me<br>
if this was all the towers.<br>
<br>
Due to a load of people being scared of phone masts and radiation etc,<br>
the uk body in charge of radio stuff etc. OFCOM, made available on this<br>
website:<br>
<a href="http://www.sitefinder.ofcom.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.sitefinder.ofcom.org.uk/</a><br>
pretty much all the locations of all the cell towers...<br>
<br>
I'm not sure how that information is licenced.. I have seen discussions<br>
about this before I think but I can't remember where... it could have<br>
been OSM related.<br>
<br>
Obviously the issue would be opencellid integrating unclearls licenced data.<br>
<br>
Before you reply:<br>
<br>
STOP. As I said before, I may well be wrong!<br>
<br>
Happy Hacking,<br>
<br>
Tim<br>
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