Network informations

[Joshua Layne]

This has been done in Navizon

worked well on my WM05 device (that is an oxymoron....) - he paid bounties
for a certain number of points mapped (for the GPS-attached version) and
then charged for the non-GPS version.  Overall, it worked well for me - I
made about $80USD mapping stuff :)

I think there was a wired writeup on it a few years back, but I have never
been able to find it after seeing it initially.

provided there aren't any IP/patent issues - a community to do this should
be pretty straightforward, but is subject to all the 'problems' of a
community - hosting, etc...

the more community sites spin off of this effort, the more important it is
to have a single way to manage profile information across them - I know I
have seen talk of using openID - maybe a resident profile manager
supporting openID would be a good direction? (I know this is veering away
from the original post, so I'll stop here - not intended as a thread-jack)

rgds,
joshua

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:59:03 +0200, Alexandre d'Alton <alex at alexdalton.org>
wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:10:07 +0200
> Christophe Berger <christophe.berger at lip6.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Example of data I need :
>>  Operator Name: SFR
>>  Network Mode: WCDMA
>>  Country code: 208
>>  Network Id: 10
>>  Area code: 12101
>>  Cell Id: 124496
>> And signal strength
> These informations are available to the user of libgsmd as indications.
> Each time that the phone choses another tower, it will send that update
> through an indication. This do not require changes in the GSM chipset.
> 
> However, having informations on all the Cells that the phone sees
> (neighbour cells or other operator's cells is not possible without
changes
> to the GSM chipset firmware).
> 
> In fact what I've planned to do is to create an application that would
log
> the GPS position each time it receives that registration update in order
to
> create a kind of base-station location database in order to create a kind
> of location service without the need of GPS hardware, based on the cell
ids
> that we're in.
> 
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Christophe Berger
>> Network R&D Engineer
>> LIP6 - +33 144 277 277
>>
>>
> 
> 
> --
> Alexandre d'Alton <alex at alexdalton.org>