Sure, but I think their coverage is somewhat scarce? Yahoo Fireeagle seems to support cellid, but I don't think is workable to ask users to signup for Fireeagle. Then there is http://www.navizon.com/ but it's too expensive for me at this stage.
Anton On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Abraham Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are making request to the Twitter API you should be able to make > request to OpenCelID to get an approximate lat/lon location. > http://www.opencellid.org/api > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 04:44, Anton Krasovsky <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Thanks for reply! I would be nice if you'd have considered adding >> something >> like that in the future - iPhones and such are nice, but there are >> plenty more users with simplier phones that don't have GPS. >> >> Anton >> >> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Raffi Krikorian <[email protected]> wrote: >> > hi anton. >> > that's interesting, but, right now, we don't have anything like that on >> > our >> > roadmap. devices like the iPod touch, i believe, do the cell ID -> >> > coordinate mapping internally, and then could send those coordinates to >> > our >> > API. >> > >> > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM, anton <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Is there any plans to support cellid based location updates for mobile >> >> devices that aren't equipped with GPS? >> >> >> >> My understanding that currently to update user's location one has to >> >> obtain users latitude and longitude, which aren't readily available on >> >> most handsets (except the newest ones equipped with GPS) . >> >> >> >> It would be terrific if Twitter would allow to use cellid to update >> >> the user's location, similar to what Google Latitude does. >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Anton >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Raffi Krikorian >> > Twitter Platform Team >> > http://twitter.com/raffi >> > > > > > -- > Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org > Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham > Project | Awesome Lists | http://twitterli.st > This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. > Sent from Madison, WI, United States
