[crschmidt]

This isn't really Python Specific, but I just read a bunch of similar efforts in another gsm_location thread, and so I thought I would put this out there.

http://gsmloc.org/ is a recently started web service collecting my own and other users data of cell IDs, and then providing a web service to retrieve the information attached to those cell IDs back from the database, including a centroid and a bounding box.

It seems that I'm certainly not the only one to come up with this, and I ahve no interest in owning this space, but I would love to provide a repository to collect all the efforts people have made so far. It seems this is an utterly fragmented space, and I'd like to improve on that.

So, anyone who is collecting GSM cell data and attaching it to a location via a GPS, *please* contact me in some way (this thread, or crschmidt@crschmidt.net) and tell me what we need to do to import your data into the GSMLoc database. My goal is eventually to work with all the people doing this around the world and get everything in one place, so that there will be an easy to use web service that developers can use to actually geolocate themselves in the world.

This would, naturally, open up a huge amount of possibilities for mobile application developers. I've already got one contributor who has mapped out all of Denver, Colorado, and is using the data to look up local restaurants based on cell id.

It's definitely possible to work together and get more out of this, so let's do so, instead of fragmenting ourselves into a millino pieces.

[cyke64]

Now it's Python specific

The same author has now a python script running on your phone for collecting info

http://gsmloc.org/code/stumblestore.py

[MrKikkeli]

I don't want to spoil the fun but is it actually legal to "reverse-engineer" the cellID grid of the operators? I mean, they usually sell their cellID maps to developpers...
Very interesting project though, I wish it'll work for the possibilities are promising.