I'd like to see a visual comparison between recorded and observed Cell tower info. It may also help to gauge accuracy in a convenient format.
How much effort would be required to add pins for cell towers (which is generally public info) on the map? See: http://www.coveragemapper.com/windmap.php for an example of what I'd expect from MLS. On Apr 17, 2014 11:34 AM, "Felix Baumann" <[email protected]> wrote: > What do you think about making another database in which we collect > further data about cell towers: > Their location, the tower type (UMTS/GSM/LTE/CDMA), how the tower spreads > the signal (radius or sector), maybe an additional picture showing where > you can find it exactly and so on. > > This would have two purposes: > 1. We could validate whether the submitted data for our first database is > correct/whether a search request for our API uses fake data to bruteforce > it. > 2. We could improve our position calculations later on with this data as > we know how the signal spreads around the tower. > (UMTS towers are spreading signals in sectors unlike GSM towers which > spread their signal in a radius around them) > > > We could talk to owners of existing lists like this huge one: > http://www.senderliste.de/ > and import their data. > > > We could make an app for users to help contributing to this project and > users could validate their information by uploading their GPS position and > linking the found towers to their account. > If we find out that one user faked his uploaded data we could still ban > him/her and delete their uploaded data. > Users would get confidence values. > They would need to apply to do this and talk to one of the mozilla > developers over E-Mail or IRC. > It would be somehow closed but open to everyone who wants to help. > > We could engage users by showing them that there is a tower nearby that we > have no information about. > 1st way: check available cells and compare to online database->do we have > informations about them? > 2nd way: ask database which towers nearby are unchecked, yet->server > checks database for a radius of maybe 10km around the users position and > looks for towers we have no information about > ->user gets a ruffly position where to look for the tower and the app > helps by indicating a position where to go to > ->the app compares the signal strengths and remebers the users position > and shows the direction the user needs to go to on a compass > > Users would need to agree to this linking but we would never show their > usernames in public. > Maybe we could hide the names even with hashes->we can only find cell > towers uploaded by one user but not guess which user uploaded this one > specific tower. (developers could take a look at the database without any > privacy being harmed, the user database itself should be looked from > anybodys access) > > Later on we could make this data public like senderliste.de did and show > the positions of cell towers on our map including their range. > And we could provide a map which shows how fast users are able to surf on > the internet in certain areas if they use provider xy. > If our database gets big enough we could even show dead zones. > > If users want to be named on this site and even linked to specific towers > they can agree to this. (Optional for users with over ~100 cell tower > uploads -> no guess possible where the user lives exactly) > We could also make a leaderboard that shows which user has uploaded more > information about cell towers. (1 point for 1 cell tower or maybe extra > points for street names/pictures and not onyl their GPS position) > > > I hope you like my suggestion. > Lets see if it proves popular. > > Felix > _______________________________________________ > dev-geolocation mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation > _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation
