[Geowanking] Cell Tower IDs

[Jerritt Collord]

The system I have been conceptualizing is based off a full survey of the
urban environment... could be conducted with a few orthogonal-carriers
friends' phones running the right software.

Assuming there is access to the full list of towers with their signal
strength. Take data points in a somewhat controlled manner every half
block, compile these points centrally. Even if only current tower
association and signal strenght is available, something could be done.

Then users would run a process on the phone that updated the service
with their current cell tower/strength list every __ interval or as this
list changes significantly, or some combination of variables.

Then upon request user phone would ask "where am i" (or location
information trickles back as ACKs to the tower strength updates?) and
the service would calculate the best guess based on the past arc of
radio intercepts.

I think this would be the statistically only feasible way to get decent
resolution with typical cell information (until the real LBS stuff is
exposed to third party developers or us "users"... *cough*).

Anyway, sorry I can't help you with your 1-1 mapping problem as below (I
would assume that if there was a semi-open, programmatic way to do so,
the commercial Series 60 app "MiniGPS" would already do it--it doesn't),
but perhaps someone has feedback on the above more data-intensive
approach?

Jerritt

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:00:56 -0400 (EDT)
Joshua Schachter <joshua at burri.to> wrote:

> 
> Anyone know where/how to get Cell Tower ID -> latlon mappings?
> 
> -j
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