AFAIK they mostly target smarphones and require both cell id and wifi ssid data to do the lookup, so it's not an option for j2me-only devices.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Jonathan Markwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Skyhook Wireless could be another option: http://www.skyhookwireless.com > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Anton Krasovsky > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Jonathan Markwell > Engineer | Founder | Connector > > Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK > > Web application development & support > Twitter & Facebook integration specialists > http://inuda.com > > Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community > http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com > > Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton - > http://theskiff.org > > Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com > > mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 > skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/jot >
