Re: [OSM-talk] Sister Projects / possible data source

2011-09-08 Thread Erik Lundin
I don't know if I have got this discussion wrong, but I have seen at least two community projects that are trying to build databases of locations of different wireless networks: http://openbmap.org/ and http://opencellid.org/ / Erik [1] http://opencellid.org/ 2011-08-07 23:50, John Smith

Re: [OSM-talk] Sister Projects / possible data source

2011-08-08 Thread Florian Hannemann
hi just an idea. would it be possible to include the WiFi or Celltower information that are collected by crowdflow.net into open street map? maybe someone could ask them if they are willing to provide there data ;-) bye AssetBurned On 05.07.2011, at 18:48, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2011/7/5

Re: [OSM-talk] Sister Projects / possible data source

2011-08-07 Thread assetburned
hi just an idea. would it be possible to include the WiFi or Celltower information that are collected by crowdflow.net into open street map? maybe someone could ask them if they are willing to provide there data ;-) bye AssetBurned On 05.07.2011, at 18:48, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2011/7/5

Re: [OSM-talk] Sister Projects / possible data source

2011-08-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 4:42 PM, assetburned openstreet...@assetburned.de wrote: hi just an idea. would it be possible to include the WiFi or Celltower information that are collected by crowdflow.net into open street map? maybe someone could ask them if they are willing to provide there data

Re: [OSM-talk] Sister Projects / possible data source

2011-08-07 Thread John Smith
On 8 August 2011 07:46, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: As I remember it from previous discussions, wifi locations are somewhat transient for OSM. Cell tower locations are likely from government databases are they not? Google etc estimate location of towers by using data handsets