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 average position? >
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 and TangoGPS. > > > Is there any work underway into opening/fixing the API? > > What API? > What is not open? > What needs to be fixed? > 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 version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <gsm mcc="505" mnc="2" lac="2621" cid="12213"> <zone countrynamecode="Australia" /> </gsm> What would be good to be open is the edge points of a given cell, just like you can see in the map: http://realtimeblog.free.fr/with_osm4.php?mcc=505&mnc=2&lac=2624&cellid=12213&zoom=13 I'd eventually be wanting to use several cells in combination, along with their signal/rx strength to try to work out a more accurate position. Other geolocation APIs let you send in those details to work out the predicted position and error radius, but perhaps OM developers would want to use the openness of the data to develop their own prediction method on the local device. > > If you really need the KML of the cells, then we can see how to provide > this. I just saw that there were already KML files referenced in the map, so if that was the easiest way to share the data for now, so be it. But a local sqlite database or dbus service will be even better when it's ready.
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