On Tuesday 31 March 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: > 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. ;-)
In the UK they would prefer this data to be secret - see link below. http://www.sitefinder.ofcom.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community