Re: Three different databases for gsm celltower locations

2009-04-08 Thread Onen
Joerg Reisenweber wrote: Am Sa 4. April 2009 schrieb Stefan Schmidt: OpenBmap likes to have more fields for quality informations about GPS and GSM. I strongly suggest to include fields for TimeAdvance values for each BTS. TA is a much better and more reliable value for distance to Base

Re: Three different databases for gsm celltower locations

2009-04-07 Thread Jan Lübbe
Please excuse the late reply... On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 21:53 +0200, Onen wrote: Hallo Jan, I have seen the last commits from you about adding GSM based localisation. First this is great, that it reaches the framework! This brings me some questions: 1. This has been especially a

Re: Three different databases for gsm celltower locations

2009-04-07 Thread Jan Lübbe
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 23:49 +0100, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: Am Sa 4. April 2009 schrieb Stefan Schmidt: OpenBmap likes to have more fields for quality informations about GPS and GSM. I strongly suggest to include fields for TimeAdvance values for each BTS. TA is a much better and more

Re: Three different databases for gsm celltower locations

2009-04-06 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 02:42, Thomas Landspurg wrote: The good news is that we are communicating and discussing while progressing slowly. With Sebastian of CellHunter, we basically agree that Cell Hunter would upload is cells to OpenCellID while maintaining their own database for

Re: Three different databases for gsm celltower locations

2009-04-06 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 12:02, Sebastian Hammerl wrote: like Thomas said I will submit the data of cellhunter to opencellid while keeping my own db for more game data. So opencellid will be the main source for cell information and I think this is the best solution because it is

Re: Three different databases for gsm celltower locations

2009-04-06 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 15:24, Onen wrote: Sebastian Hammerl wrote: I will talk from my part the client code. I know you have little time right now for a collaborating project. But I think we have much better to do than duplicating this aspect. If you would agree on coding on the

Re: Three different databases for gsm celltower locations

2009-04-06 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 15:03, Onen wrote: Another point is the other signals than GSM. Our initial vision was to build a database of communicating objects, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc... Can anybody give me some ideas how BT should be useful here? From what I know there are very little

Re: Three different databases for gsm celltower locations

2009-04-06 Thread Onen
Hi, Stefan Schmidt wrote: On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 15:03, Onen wrote: Another point is the other signals than GSM. Our initial vision was to build a database of communicating objects, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc... Can anybody give me some ideas how BT should be useful here? From what I

Re: Three different databases for gsm celltower locations

2009-04-06 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Onen onen...@free.fr writes: A reason why BT may still last over WiFi may be the power needed to have BT on in comparison of WiFi, don't you think? What about digital radio broadcasting stations or RDS information from regular radios? -Timo ___

Re: Three different databases for gsm celltower locations

2009-04-06 Thread Onen
Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Onen onen...@free.fr writes: A reason why BT may still last over WiFi may be the power needed to have BT on in comparison of WiFi, don't you think? What about digital radio broadcasting stations or RDS information from regular radios? These are very interesting

Re: Three different databases for gsm celltower locations

2009-04-04 Thread Onen
Hi, Thomas Landspurg wrote: The good news is that we are communicating and discussing while progressing slowly. With Sebastian of CellHunter, we basically agree that Cell Hunter would upload is cells to OpenCellID while maintaining their own database for the purpose of the game. With Onen

Re: Three different databases for gsm celltower locations

2009-04-04 Thread Onen
Hi, Sebastian Hammerl wrote: At this time I do note have the time to submit the data because I have to finish my master thesis until mid of may. But after that I promise to upload new cellhunter cells periodically. At this momemt there are about 4 cells with over 200 measures. At

Re: Three different databases for gsm celltower locations

2009-04-04 Thread Onen
Hi, Stefan Schmidt wrote: I can see some technical problems you may face here. Cellhunter needs some db fields for the group management and ranking. OpenBmap likes to have more fields for quality informations about GPS and GSM. Different layouts of the databases, etc. What should work easily

Re: Three different databases for gsm celltower locations

2009-04-03 Thread Daniel Willmann
Hi, On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 00:05:43 +0200 Stefan Schmidt ste...@datenfreihafen.org wrote: I'm wondering what happended to the discussion about three different databases available. Back at the last time this topic came up I felt that there will be ongoing work to avoid this concurency and try to