[OSM-talk] Sister Projects / possible data source

Erik Lundin erik at lists.lun.nu
Thu Sep 8 18:16:35 BST 2011


I don't know if I have got this discussion wrong, but I have seen at 
least two community projects that are trying to build databases of 
locations of different wireless networks: http://openbmap.org/ and 
http://opencellid.org/

/ Erik

[1] http://opencellid.org/

2011-08-07 23:50, John Smith skrev:
> On 8 August 2011 07:46, Richard Weait<richard at weait.com>  wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Google etc estimate location of towers by using data handsets expose.
>
>> 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?
>
> If there is GPS data involved that might be more useful than the tower
> estimations etc.
>
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