Ericsson releases "free" cell-id lookup API

[Baruch Even]

Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote:
> https://labs.ericsson.com/apis/mobile-location/documentation/cell-id-look-up-api
> 
> Limited to 100 requests per day. Perhaps I'm getting the syntax wrong
> (made sure to use hex like their example does) but when I tried to
> compare it to cells in the openmoko cellid databases, I got back "404
> - The requested resource () is not available."

The main limitation of such APIs is that you have to be online to use 
them, so you must use a GPRS connection to get your location. 
openbmap-locator can work offline as well.

Baruch