For the moment our position is: We log the cell ids we get connected to.
We do not log the neighbour cells. The reason is: if we are far from the cells, we will (maybe, this needs experimentation to my point of view) see the cells even very far. I fear that it would stretch the areas, and thus decrease the precision, nullifying the benefit of recording those additional cells. But, my idea, is to use the neighbour cells, to detect the overlapping region among areas of cells I currently see, to improve the precision. Any comments? Onen Quoting Yorick Moko <yorickm...@gmail.com>: > excuse me for the spam, but just thought of something else: > do you guys also log information about neighbouring cells, like cellhunter > does? > this might also be interesting when you have gps coordinates > the accuracy of the neighbouring cells are much lower ofcourse, but > could also provide some very usefull info > y > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Yorick Moko <yorickm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And are you guys aware of cellhunter? > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/CellHunter > > http://78.47.116.33/~hole/cellhunter/ > > > > you could work together, and maybe also incorporate the "game" concept > > for those interested > > > > y > > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Yorick Moko <yorickm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Maybe this can help a bit: > >> http://www.sites.bipt.be/indexfr1.html > >> (click on the first blue link) > >> > >> it wil display a map of belgium, with all cell towers (already built > >> and those with a building permission) > >> if you click on a dot, you can get a pdf with information about who > >> owns the tower, where it it placed, how many antenna's are on it and a > >> lot of other irrelevant data > >> too bad that as far as i can see the cellID is not included in the > >> documentation :( > >> > >> y > >> > >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:49 PM, kimaidou <kimai...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Hi, you said > >>> > >>>> So it should be ok for openbmap guys. That could explain the thing > >>>> about "merging" both databases. Any "official" insight on this? I've > >>>> been collecting cell information for a few weeks, with some home-made > >>>> script, and I'd like to know where I should commit them to. > >>>> > >>> > >>> Could you please make a wiki page and put + explain your script for doing > >>> that ? I think we can go very fast if anyone can use them (thinking about > >>> how openstreetmap extends..) > >>> > >>> Thanks in advance > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Openmoko community mailing list > >>> community@lists.openmoko.org > >>> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
