Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Sebastian Hammerl <list-openm...@omoco.de> writes: >> 1.) anyone knows a was to get the coordinates of area codes? > > Openstreetmap has postal codes but not telephone area codes. Can you > map postal codes to telephone area codes? > >> 2.) anyone wants to try to code something in this direction? > > Wouldn't it be much easier to just improve opencellid.org so that at > least all lac's are covered? > Have someone tried writing to telcos, asking them to contribute the positions for their cells? This is very little work for them, and could be marketed as a "cool move". Not only for openmoko owners, anyone can use opencellID information.
The info cannot be considered very "secret", seeing that O2 already broadcast such stuff. Or for Germans, ask them if they can provide the same kind of location service so you won't have to switch to O2. ;-) Helge Hafting _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
