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Cell-ID data can be used for various tasks:
  • save power on your smartphone by replacing GPS with cell-id tracking
  • find out which GSM network providers are best at the place where you are going to move to
  • find a place to live with low radio emission
  • get a GPS position even if GPS is not available, e.g. in buildings
  • very fast first time fix compared with GPS
Have fun with being a member of a successful community.

OpenCellID provides 100% free cell-id data (CC-BY-SA 3.0 license);
The OpenCellID database is published under a Creative Commons open content license with the intention of promoting free use and redistribution of the data.

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:
more than 10.000 contributors have already registered with OpenCellID contributing several hundred thousand new measurements every single day to the OpenCellID database.

OpenCellID is a collaborative project to create a free worldwide database of Cell IDs and their corresponding location area identity.
The OpenCellID project was primarily created to serve as a data source for GSM localization.
As of Jan 1, 2014 the database contained more than 4 million unique cells and 550 million measurements.



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