Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-26 Thread Onen
Hi, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: For me, the average position markers on the website map give a good but simple indication of how well covered an area is. I don't know of any openmoko gps programs that can handle overlaying colored regions but individual points are represented in Navit

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-26 Thread Onen
Hi, Robin Paulson wrote: 2009/7/26 Onen onen...@free.fr: What do you mean by having the tiles? Instead of having the regular OSM tiles, and overlay the cells positions, you would have a directly rendered tile set with cells included? yes. i'd like to see locations while i'm on the go, so i

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-26 Thread Onen
Hi, Onen wrote: Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: I've tried using the API page at http://realtimeblog.free.fr/api/getGPSfromGSM.html but it never returns useful results for me even when the map shows a radius. For example given MCC: 505, MNC: 2, LAC: 2624, Cellid: 12213, I get ?xml

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-26 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Onen onen...@free.fr wrote: Onen wrote: Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: I've tried using the API page at http://realtimeblog.free.fr/api/getGPSfromGSM.html but it never returns useful results for me even when the map shows a radius. For example given

[openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread Onen
Hi everyone, Nick did a very nice work about the visualisation interface of the cells on the website [1]. You can now browse and zoom to an area, and see (depending on the level of zoom), LACs and cells. When you select one item, you can click on it to see the coverage of the item. This is

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Onen onen...@free.fr wrote: You can now browse and zoom to an area, and see (depending on the level of zoom), LACs and cells. When you select one item, you can click on it to see the coverage of the item. Wow! This is very useful for planning cell id

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/25 Onen onen...@free.fr: Nick did a very nice work about the visualisation interface of the cells on the website [1]. You can now browse and zoom to an area, and see (depending on the level of zoom), LACs and cells. When you select one item, you can click on it to see the coverage of

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.comwrote: is there any work to get this data into the osm database? i assume the license is compatible? it would be great to get existing cells rendered on an alternative tile set, cache them for viewing in tangogps and see

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread Yorick Moko
nice work onen/nick! y On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.comwrote: is there any work to get this data into the osm database? i assume the license is compatible? it would be great

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/26 Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.com: On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: is there any work to get this data into the osm database? i assume the license is compatible? it would be great to get existing cells rendered on an alternative

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread Onen
Hi, Robin Paulson wrote: is there any work to get this data into the osm database? No. i assume the license is compatible? Yes. it would be great to get existing cells rendered on an alternative tile set, cache them for viewing in tangogps and see where the blank spots are, to know

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread Onen
Hi, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com is there any work to get this data into the osm database? i assume the license is compatible? it would be great to get existing cells rendered on an alternative tile set,

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread Onen
Hi, Robin Paulson wrote: 2009/7/26 Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.com: On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: is there any work to get this data into the osm database? i assume the license is compatible? it would be great to get existing cells

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Onen onen...@free.fr wrote: Hi, If we could get all the average points for a network/country/region as KML, it wouldn't be too hard to convert them into tangogps POIs (although then you'd have alot of POIs). What would be the purpose of displaying the

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread mqy
Onen, glad to see openBmap gets better and better, congratulation :) best regards, mqy Onen wrote: Hi everyone, Nick did a very nice work about the visualisation interface of the cells on the website [1]. You can now browse and zoom to an area, and see (depending on the level of

Re: [openBmap] New cells visualisation interface on the website (beta)

2009-07-25 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/7/26 Onen onen...@free.fr: hmm, that sounds slow and clumsy imo; i'd far rather have the tiles. as the license is compatible, i might look at importing it myself. i think there's a tag in osm, but i can always create one if there isn't What do you mean by having the tiles? Instead of