it also matters which network you are on to which towers you can see,
and that gets complicated with roaming agreements and tower sharing
stuff, there is at least one project looking to map towers and signal
strengths https://www.cellmapper.net/mw/index.php/Index
I don't think running the GPS
In my opinion, it's important to use an open database with clear policies.
Then, a different discussion is how to help this database get filled. I'm
not very convinced of the automatic data collection from mobile terminals
due to the following reasons:
1. To have a real impact it will require con
I thought the HERE maps thing did that?
It really isn't a good idea for the Ubuntu handsets to contribute to any
such effort while location services is still so reluctant to allow the
GPS chip to turn on and do it's job. Right now my phone thinks I am
about half a mile away from where I am, I c
It seems to me the leaderboard considers only Stumbler users, while
I'd wager the vast majority of contributions come from Firefox for
Android users. There are more than 100 millions downloads of Firefox
for android. Even if only 1 out of 5000 users have opted in and still
use the app consistently,
Hi Mattias,
Thanks for the mail. I don't know much about the other services, but
know a bit about MLS. Here's my thoughts.
On 8 June 2016 at 20:52, Mattias wrote:
> There are open source
> databases with an api like http://opencellid.org and
> https://location.services.mozilla.com/.
I've been k
Hi,
I totally agree, ubuntu should be using an AGPS based on open databases.
However I think it's not the case.
In any case, such an implementation needs to be at location-service level,
not app level. I haven't had time to check how complex it would be to try
to implement that from scratch and m
Hi,
Does someone know if there is already software that makes you get a
faster location fix using cell tower information? I noticed that a-gps
works quite well in the city area but not in the country side. There
are already a few open source projects (for android) that do this, but I
am wond
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