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

[Thomas Landspurg]

  Hello Risto,

 That's exactly the objective.There is a clear difference and
complementarity between a general purpose database and the
"CellsHunter" game for instance. The good news is that we are
progressing well with CellsHunter to integrate their database.
Currently the integration has been done once but I hope to integrate
this much easily soon...
  I still hope to convince OpenBMap to don't recreate another database
focused on OpenMoko but use and improve a general purpose project. I
am sure that that's the spirit of Onen, but it seems that we had some
communication issue that I should be solved soon.
  The final benefit, at the end, is to provide the best not in only in
term of coverage but also in terms of accuracy database.

  As a reminder, we are open to any suggestion on how to imprement the
API, features, missing fields, etc.....

2009/9/3 Risto H. Kurppa <risto at kurppa.fi>:
> I have no idea what's going on between you people but:
>
> Now that I had a little thought, I really don't care how many copies
> of the database we have. All I care about is that
>
> a) there's a way to use the data (=a client capable to locate me based
> on the GSM cells around me)
> b) the client uses the database with most cells.
>
> -> as long as all three projects have proper API's to import/export
> data and they do it from the other 2 projects things work.
>
> It kind of makes sense if the projects use different ways to collect
> the data. One has it as a competition, one uses some clients to
> collect the data, another uses other clients and projects. And in the
> end they all benefit from the work of others.
>
> Just some points for you to discuss:
> a) common api or data format to import/export
> b) common api to submit cells
>
>
> r - goes out to find some cells
>
> (no, not really, I'll watch an episode of CSI :)
>
>
>
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