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Revision as of 23:33, 27 January 2014
Recording of cell-id data on the fly with a smartphone app
Various apps for different types of smartphones exist that allow to record data for the OpenCellID project.
The following operating systems are supported:
Enable cell-id recording on tracking devices / telematics devicesProviders of telematics services or fleet management services typically operate many thousand devices on behalf of their customers.
Donate data retrieved from other sourcesThere is a multitude of other sources of cell-id data like
The OpenCellID community is highly interested in any donation of reliable GSM base station data. Please contact Markus if you have cell-id data you would like to contribute to the OpenCellID database. Please ensure, that the license of the contributed data is compatible with the OpenCellID license. Contribute your knowledge to this OpenCellID wikiThis wiki is based on Mediawiki, the famous wiki software used amongst others by Wikipedia. After registering a wiki user account here you can edit all wiki pages in the "Public:" name space. You can also add new "Public:" pages to this wiki in case you have an interesting topic. Example: http://wiki.opencellid.org/wiki/Public:Mainwould create the "Public:Main" page if it would not yet exist. In case you create a new page, pleas add it here to the community page directory. Promote OpenCellIDDespite the fact that OpenCellID is around now for 5 years this community project is still widely unknown. Whereas the number of contributors in Germany, in some parts of the US or in Moscow is pretty high, there is a lack of contributors / data in many other parts of the world. Invite ContributorsThere are a lot of successful companies and developers around for which it is easy to contribute to OpenCellID and which already have a serious community / customer base like
They also would have a serious benefit from doing so because they can use the community servers free of charge whereas all others have either to run their own servers (which is expensive) or the have to pay someone for providing such a service. A sample text for a promotion email dedicated to telematics service providers can be found here A sample text for a promotion email dedicated to developers of apps using GPS can be found here A sample text for a promotion email dedicated to developers of cell-data related apps can be found here Follow OpenCellID on Twitter and forward the OpenCellID tweets to your friends and followers. Participate in the OpenCellID sticker campaign on FacebookThe idea: take a photo of a well known tourist point of interest like the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, or the Kremlin in Moscow while holding the OpenCellID sticker into the scene. Examples can be found on the right side. Now post your picture to the OpenCellID Facebook page and let others find out where the picture has been taken. Here you can download the sticker as PDF file for printing it and here you can request to get free of charge some original OpenCellID stickers. They will be sent to you by snail mail. |