Data sources
From OpenCellID wiki
This page lists a number of smartphone apps that allow contributing GSM cell tower measurements to the OpenCellID database.
Please contact Markus if you want to get your OpenCellID app added to this list.
Android smartphone apps
Name | Screenshot-1 | Screenshot-2 | Description | OpenCellID data consumer | OpenCellID data provider | Download |
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CellID info | Displays information about your currently connected cellular network site, like Cell ID (CID), Location Area Code (LAC), Mobile Network/Country Code (MNC&MCC) or CDMA SID and NID. On GSM networks it can show lat/lon location by querying opencellid.org and show it on a map. |
yes | no | Google Play | ||
Cell searcher | Cell Searcher is a program that can be used to get information about cell towers that android device is connected to. Cell Searcher supports GSM, CDMA, 4G, 3G, 2G networks. The program offers the following functions:
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yes | no | Google Play | ||
inViu OpenCellID | mapping of house numbers by defining the exact position of the house number tag with the help of an integrated map | no | yes | Google Play | ||
inViu routes |
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yes | yes | Google Play | ||
Keypad-Mapper 3 | mapping of house numbers by defining the exact position of the house number tag with the help of an integrated map; recording of cell-id information runs in background |
no | yes | App Stores | ||
Rf Signal Tracker | The Ad-hoc Drive Test App! The RF Signal Tracker is an engineering application for doing impromptu hand-held drive-tests with your Android phone. You can monitor the RF and WiFi signal strength for the device as well as the serving cell locations and hotspots, describe a cell site's zone of coverage, identify changes in technology and handover points, and save and playback that data. While many of the phone stats in the app can be displayed on the phone already (go to Settings -> About -> Status to see them). The advantage of this app is you can then map, record, and analyze, and share that data in a meaningful way. | yes | no | Google Play | ||
Tower Collector | Tower Collector collects GPS locations of GSM/UMTS cell towers and sends them to OpenCellID.org database. It is designed to help map the extent of mobile phone network coverage. It is also possible to collect measurements for private purposes and export them to CSV or GPX files. It has 6 built-in specially optimized GPS modes to reduce battery usage and provide high quality of data. The app is designed to be simple, lightweight and to use device low resources. It works ONLY on the GSM and UMTS based networks, doesn't support CDMA! |
no | yes | Google Play | ||
OpenCellID client (Marcus Wolschon) | Client to collect locations of GSM cellphone -cells and upload them to opencellid.org. Also features a nice Map of the cells collected using either Google Maps or OpenStreetMap. |
??? | yes | Google Play |
Blackberry smartphone apps
Name | Screenshot-1 | Screenshot-2 | Description | OpenCellID data consumer | OpenCellID data provider | Download |
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Get Cell ID | not interactive; daemon | Blackberry app which can run in the background and tries to constantly submit information to http://www.OpenCellID.org about the current base station it's connected to, and the GPS location whenever the signal strength or GPS co-ords change etc. | no | yes | Sourceforge |
Firefox smartphone apps
Name | Screenshot-1 | Screenshot-2 | Description | OpenCellID data consumer | OpenCellID data provider | Download |
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Get Cell ID | This is an open web app, targeted at Firefox OS and tested initially on the Geeksphone Peak, that grabs the current cellular network ID (the MCC, MNC, LAC and Cell ID) and displays it. The app will also, optionally, upload this information to OpenCellID.org, Mozilla Location Services and/or a custom URL. |
no | yes | Github |
iPhone smartphone apps
Name | Screenshot-1 | Screenshot-2 | Description | OpenCellID data consumer | OpenCellID data provider | Download |
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Pollution | Pollution informs you about your local pollution sources, and their measured exposures:
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yes | no | App Store | ||
GPS tracker tool | 120px | 120px | Do you have a compatible SMS-operated GPS tracker or are you about to buy one? The aim of this app is to make the operation of it as easy as possible. | yes | no | App Store |
Layar | Connect digital content with the real world with Layar - the world’s #1 augmented reality app. Scan print materials enhanced with Layar to view rich digital experiences right on top! Then be amazed as extra digital content appears, allowing you to interact with your world in a whole new way! The OpenCellID Geo Layer Displays amongst other information nearest GSM cells around you. This layer is based on the open source database from http://www.opencellid.org/ |
yes | no | App OpenCellID layer | ||
GPS Tracker TK102-2 V6 TK5000 Cell ID Handyortung | [[File:|120px]] | [[File:|120px]] | Got a GPS-Tracker, but no GPS-reception? You might be able to track it down anyway, using celluar info provided in the SMS from the tracker. This app will take that data and convert it into a coordinate according to the open-cell-id.org-database. If a relevant entry is found, the approximate location of your tracker will be shown on a map | yes | no | App Store App Store |
J2ME smartphone apps
Name | Screenshot-1 | Screenshot-2 | Description | OpenCellID data consumer | OpenCellID data provider | Download |
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OpenCellId for J2ME | [[File:|120px]] | [[File:|120px]] | OpenCellId client to collect cell site information and their positions, i.e. latitude and longitude and to feed it into the OpenCellId database. The program is a J2ME application. The program requirements are
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no | yes | Hoddmimes |
Maemo smartphone apps
Name | Screenshot-1 | Screenshot-2 | Description | OpenCellID data consumer | OpenCellID data provider | Download |
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Windows Mobile smartphone apps
Name | Screenshot-1 | Screenshot-2 | Description | OpenCellID data consumer | OpenCellID data provider | Download |
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OpenCellId for Windows Mobile | OpenCellId client to collect cell site information and their positions, i.e. latitude and longitude and to feed it into the OpenCellId database. The program is a windows application. The application requires .NET 2.0 to be installed. It has been developed and tested on Windows Mobile V6.1 |
no | yes | Hoddmimes | ||
OpenCellClient | [[File:|120px]] | [[File:|120px]] | This is a free software to collect data to OpenCellID project using your Windows Mobile 5 or 6 based device with built in GPS receiver. | no | yes | Developer´s download page |
Windows Phone smartphone apps
Name | Screenshot-1 | Screenshot-2 | Description | OpenCellID data consumer | OpenCellID data provider | Download |
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