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=New Maintainer - Unwired Labs=
  
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Dear OpenCellID contributors,
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'''<div style="font-size: 140%;">Cell-ID data can be used for various tasks:
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Our search for a new maintainer is over! Please join me in welcoming Unwired Labs as the new maintainer of OpenCellID.
* '''save power on your smartphone by replacing GPS with cell-id tracking
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* '''find the best GSM network provider at the place where you are going to move to
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* '''find a place to live with low radio emission
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* '''track assets and friends even if GPS is not available, e.g. in buildings
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* '''enjoy a very fast first time fix compared with GPS</div><br>
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'''<div style="font-size: 140%;">Have fun with being a member of a successful community!</div>
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OpenCellID provides 100% free cell-id data (CC-BY-SA 3.0 license); the OpenCellID database is published under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons] open content license with the intention of promoting free use and redistribution of the data.
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OpenCellID is the biggest community project world wide collecting GPS positions of cell towers that can be used free of charge for commercial and private purposes:<br>
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As you know, OpenCellID is one of the oldest open-source platforms in geolocation with an active community of users, developers and contributors. The complete development and infrastructure efforts over the last few years haven been funded by ENAiKOON and me personally.  
more than 10.000 contributors have already registered with OpenCellID contributing several hundred thousand new measurements every single day to the OpenCellID database. [http://opencellid.org/#&action=statistics.measurements&sortByRadio=4&dateFrom=&dateTo=&mcc=&mnc= Detailed statistics] are available in real time.
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'''OpenCellID''' is a [[virtual community|collaborative project]] to create a [[free content|free]] worldwide [[database]] of [[Cell ID]]s and their corresponding [[location area identity]].<br>
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We single-handedly overhauled the infrastructure and cleaned the large dataset to make OpenCellID reliable as we know it.
The OpenCellID project was primarily created to serve as a data source for [[GSM localization]].<br>
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As of Jan 1, 2014 the database contained more than 4 million unique cells and 550 million measurements.
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There’s still a long way to go, however. There are a multitude of new technologies (WiFi, IoT wide area networks, etc) that need to be supported, a lot more data brought in and more hands-on-deck to support the growing community. For this reason, I believe Unwired Labs, a leading geolocation service themselves, will build on the good work all of us have done so far. I hope that the Unwired + OpenCellID combination continues benefiting our community.
  
  
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For any queries, write to the new team at [email protected]
  
[www.facebook?? OpenCellID on Facebook]
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All the best.
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Cheers, Markus

Revision as of 15:07, 20 April 2017

New Maintainer - Unwired Labs

Dear OpenCellID contributors,

Our search for a new maintainer is over! Please join me in welcoming Unwired Labs as the new maintainer of OpenCellID.

As you know, OpenCellID is one of the oldest open-source platforms in geolocation with an active community of users, developers and contributors. The complete development and infrastructure efforts over the last few years haven been funded by ENAiKOON and me personally.

We single-handedly overhauled the infrastructure and cleaned the large dataset to make OpenCellID reliable as we know it.

There’s still a long way to go, however. There are a multitude of new technologies (WiFi, IoT wide area networks, etc) that need to be supported, a lot more data brought in and more hands-on-deck to support the growing community. For this reason, I believe Unwired Labs, a leading geolocation service themselves, will build on the good work all of us have done so far. I hope that the Unwired + OpenCellID combination continues benefiting our community.


For any queries, write to the new team at [email protected]


All the best. Cheers, Markus