cellhunter - openbmap - opencellid revisited... (was Re: CellHunter is moving to a new server)

[Risto H. Kurppa]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Thomas
Landspurg<t.landspurg at 8motions.com> wrote:
>  Again , and clarifiacation:
>
>  ObenBMap have in fact less than 82963 cells (the 'trusted' cells),
> the others are coming from OpenCellId! ;)

Yes, I knew that OBM had imported from OCI but to me the only thing
that matters is how many cells a service has to be used to calculate
the locations of cells, no matter where's the data from. The more data
a service has, the more reliable & usable it is for a user (if there
were applications capable of using any of the services to do the
location). So if all three services would sync their info daily/weekly
with having some of their own extra fields I'd be happy as they all
would benefit from each other and they all would have the same sources
to do the locationing the only difference being the algorithms. Yes of
course it'd be a waste of work to maintain three databases.. but isn't
that the case now anyway?

>  I would be fine also to reintegrate cells from CellsHunter into OpenCellID too

Is there something that stops you from doing so?

r


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