[GSM] Geolocating

Lucas Bonnet lbonnet at bearstech.com
Wed Apr 23 14:51:24 CEST 2008


"Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" <mail at 3v1n0.net> writes:

>> 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.).
>
> There's a thread [1] on the kernel mailing list about this feature too.
> Give it a look!

Ah, the only list I'm not subscribed to :)

Thanks.

-- 
Lucas Bonnet
Bearstech - http://bearstech.com
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