ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

Al Johnson openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk
Tue Jun 12 14:57:20 CEST 2012


On Wednesday 06 June 2012 09:38:58 robin wrote:
> what did you have in mind for the geolocating via gsm towers and wifi?
> http://openbmap.org ?
> do you know any projects which make use of such data (triangulation). this
> might be very interesting to enhance navit's routing possibilities if it
> takes to long to get a gps-fix.

Geoclue[1] is an open location system that is supposed to agregate data from 
multiple sources including gps. AFAIK there isn't an openbmap plugin for it 
yet. Gsmloc is mentioned for cell tower triangulation but a cursory look 
suggests it's no longer active.

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue

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