Nice interview of Thomas Landspurg, founder of 8Motions, and a friend from France, on the importance and use of Cell-IDs for location-based mobile applications.
Thomas is the creator of the OpenCellId project:
Towards free location on all devices (Telematics Update).This project is an open source project, aiming to create a complete database of CellID worlwide, with their locations. The project provides free access to tools, data to not only create this database, but also retrieve location information. OpenCell-ID provides:
- A way to collect samples that will feed the Cell-ID database
- A way to look-up the ID of an already known cell with its position
- All data can be downloaded for free, and even the source code for the application is open source
See the OpenCellID website.
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