Re: Status of GSM base station positioning services clients

2010-05-10 Thread Onen
Hi! it seems questions always come when you are out of town ;-) So sorry for the delay of this answer... On 05/03/2010 12:18 PM, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: does anyone know what's the current status of GSM base station -based positioning services.. How do the different databases compare to each

Re: Status of GSM base station positioning services clients

2010-05-10 Thread Petr Vanek
Are there clients to position the user based on the GSM base stations, with on- or offline databases? Yes, but none which are really production ready, AFAIK. I mean, packaged, tested, ready for end user. Nevertheless, it is supposed to work at least basically. It'd be great to be able to

Re: Status of GSM base station positioning services clients

2010-05-10 Thread Onen
On 05/03/2010 01:28 PM, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: You can get the approximate locations of the celltowers detected nearby with both the cellhunter and openbmap APIs (online). Averaging these and scaling by signal strength gets an alright accuracy (100-500m in some places). AFAIK there

Re: Status of GSM base station positioning services clients

2010-05-10 Thread Onen
On 05/03/2010 07:53 PM, sam tygier wrote: I have been uploading to openbmap for a while now. but not tried openbmap-locator. it would be great if someone could put up a package for openbmap-locator, and maybe have it in SHR. could it be set up so that you just drop the data files into

Re: Status of GSM base station positioning services clients

2010-05-10 Thread Onen
On 05/03/2010 09:17 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Yeah, unfortunately we didn't hear much of any of these projects. I prefer quality to quantity ;-) With the progress in FSO2, I definitely want native support for at least one of these, i.e. both for uploading newly found cells What could

Re: Status of GSM base station positioning services clients

2010-05-10 Thread Onen
On 05/10/2010 09:42 PM, Petr Vanek wrote: i tried logging by using the openBmap logger but it hasn't been updated to the new fsogsmd api yet :/ Petr Ouch :-( I have not updated my SHR for a *very* long time. As such I was not aware of this. Do you have by luck any more precise pointers?

Re: Status of GSM base station positioning services clients

2010-05-10 Thread Klaus 'mrmoku' Kurzmann
Am Montag, 10. Mai 2010 21:42:03 schrieb Petr Vanek: Are there clients to position the user based on the GSM base stations, with on- or offline databases? Yes, but none which are really production ready, AFAIK. I mean, packaged, tested, ready for end user. Nevertheless, it is supposed to

Re: Status of GSM base station positioning services clients

2010-05-10 Thread Petr Vanek
K'K i tried logging by using the openBmap logger but it hasn't been updated K'K to the new fsogsmd api yet :/ K'K K'K actually... the monitoring API was still missing in fsogsmd. Mickey comitted K'K it yesterday... or the day before... don't remember exactly. And the good K'K thing is that the

Status of GSM base station positioning services clients

2010-05-03 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
Hi there! does anyone know what's the current status of GSM base station -based positioning services.. How do the different databases compare to each other nowadays? Are there clients to position the user based on the GSM base stations, with on- or offline databases? It'd be great to be able to

Re: Status of GSM base station positioning services clients

2010-05-03 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote: Hi there! does anyone know what's the current status of GSM base station -based positioning services.. How do the different databases compare to each other nowadays? Are there clients to position the user based on the

Re: Status of GSM base station positioning services clients

2010-05-03 Thread sam tygier
On 03/05/10 12:28, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Risto H. Kurppari...@kurppa.fi wrote: Hi there! does anyone know what's the current status of GSM base station -based positioning services.. How do the different databases compare to each other nowadays? Are

Re: Status of GSM base station positioning services clients

2010-05-03 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Yeah, unfortunately we didn't hear much of any of these projects. With the progress in FSO2, I definitely want native support for at least one of these, i.e. both for uploading newly found cells and also as 1st or 2nd level geolocation provider. Onen, what's new? :) -- :M: