[OSM-talk] Sister Projects / possible data source

[Richard Weait]

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 4:42 PM, assetburned
<openstreetmap at assetburned.de> wrote:
> hi
>
> just an idea. would it be possible to include the WiFi or Celltower information that are collected by crowdflow.net into open street map?
> maybe someone could ask them if they are willing to provide there data ;-)

As I remember it from previous discussions, wifi locations are
somewhat transient for OSM.  Cell tower locations are likely from
government databases are they not?

Given that this would be a 'complete' dataset from another source, why
duplicate (and eventually synchronize) it with OSM, when it should be
possible to display them together in a mash up?

Mind you, combining towers and frequencies with terrain and building
outlines would make a fun project for estimating propagation.  ;-)