How to contribute
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:
- Android
- Blackberry
- FireFox
- iPhone
- J2ME
- Maemo
- Windows Phone
- Windows Mobile
Enable cell-id recording on tracking devices / telematics devices
Providers of telematics services or fleet management services typically operate many thousand devices on behalf of their customers.
Most of these devices have the capability to record the currently used cell-id and the current GPS position.
The OpenCellID community offers free use of all available OpenCellID services to those tracking providers which in return contribute their cell-id data to the OpenCellID database under the OpenCellID license.
Donate data retrieved from other sources
There is a multitude of other sources of cell-id data like
- .CLF files (version 3) generated by software compatible with the Nobbi software NetMonitor
- databases of other apps like this one
- GSM network providers that contribute the position of their GSM base stations to the OpenCellID project
- GSM base station enthusiasts: some members of senderliste.de have contributed their very valuable data to OpenCellID. Such data is especially valuable because it contains not only measurements but the exact GPS position of the base stations.
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 wiki
This 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.
A new "Public:" wiki page can be created by entering the full URL of the page into the browser URL input field.
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 OpenCellID
Despite 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.
Therefore any activity to attract additional contributors of cell-id data is highly appreciated. Please help promoting the project!
Participate in the OpenCellID sticker campaign on Facebook
The 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.
media:OpenCellID_sticker_for_print_out.pdf |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.
