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<div style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="color:#505D89">'''What is OpenCellID?'''</span></div><br>
 
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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 a multitude of commercial and private purposes:<br>
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|'''[http://opencellid.org/ OpenCellID]''' is the world's largest collaborative community project that collects GPS positions of cell towers, used free of charge, for a multitude of commercial and private purposes.<br>
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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More than 49,000 contributors have already registered with OpenCellID, contributing more than 1 million new measurements every day in average to the OpenCellID database. <u>
  
'''OpenCellID''' is a collaborative project to create a free database of Cell-IDs and their corresponding location area identity.<br>
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The OpenCellID project was primarily created to serve as a '''data source for GSM localisation'''.<br>
The OpenCellID project was primarily created to serve as a data source for GSM localization.<br>
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As of Jan, 2015, the database contained almost 7 million unique GSM Cell IDs and 1.2 Billion <u>[[measurements]]</u>.
As of Jan 1, 2014 the database contained more than 4 million unique GSM cell-ids and 550 million [[measurements]].
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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 provides '''100% free Cell ID data''' (under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License).<br>
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The OpenCellID database is published under a <u>[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/]</u> open content license with the intention of promoting free use and redistribution of the data.
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All data uploaded by any of the contributors can also be downloaded again free of charge - no exceptions!
 
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===[[Glossary]]===
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Revision as of 10:14, 2 August 2017

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What is OpenCellID?

OpenCellID is the world's largest collaborative community project that collects GPS positions of cell towers, used free of charge, for a multitude of commercial and private purposes.

More than 49,000 contributors have already registered with OpenCellID, contributing more than 1 million new measurements every day in average to the OpenCellID database.

The OpenCellID project was primarily created to serve as a data source for GSM localisation.
As of Jan, 2015, the database contained almost 7 million unique GSM Cell IDs and 1.2 Billion <u>measurements
.

OpenCellID provides 100% free Cell ID data (under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License).
The OpenCellID database is published under a [1] open content license with the intention of promoting free use and redistribution of the data.

All data uploaded by any of the contributors can also be downloaded again free of charge - no exceptions!

Glossary