>> Are there any devices that supports access to >> these measures? To do any kind of combination you still need to extract all >> of the data from the device and send to the server. Google doesn't have >> access to any kind of data from the network.
>Google Maps apps even on pre-android phones (Java Mobile Edition) have >had access to cell-id via the various proprietary java interfaces >(com.sonyericsson.net.cellid, >net.rim.device.api.system.GPRSInfo.getCellInfo().getCellId() on the >blackberry etc). These interfaces are what allowed the OpenCellID >project to exist before the freerunner was released. But are there any devices that support the reading of signal_strength and timing_advance from all neighbouring cells so that these can be supplied in the request to the Geolocation Network API? The proprietary interfaces I have seen only supports the cell you are currently registered to and not the neighbours. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Ericsson-releases-free-cell-id-lookup-API-tp3869908p3937224.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
