Status of GSM base station positioning services & clients

Petr Vanek vanous at penguin.cz
Mon May 10 21:42:03 CEST 2010


>> Are there clients to position the user based on the GSM base
>> stations, with on- or offline databases?
>
>Yes, but none which are really "production ready", AFAIK. I mean, 
>packaged, tested, ready for end user. Nevertheless, it is supposed to 
>work at least basically.
>
>> It'd be great to be able to detect the approximate location from GSM
>> signal and then hook up to GPS faster..
>>
>
>Baruch did some work on the vala implemented openBmap-locator code. I
>am not sure what is the status of it. The code is located on the
>openBmap sourceforge git repository.
>
>Onen


i tried logging by using the openBmap logger but it hasn't been updated
to the new fsogsmd api yet :/

Petr






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