How to contribute
Recording Cell ID data on the go with a smartphone app
Various apps are available for different types of smartphones that allow the recording of data for the OpenCellID project.
The following operating systems are supported:
Enable Cell ID recording on tracking / telematics devicesProviders of telematics services or fleet management services typically operate many thousands of devices on behalf of their customers. Donate data retrieved from other sourcesThere is a multitude of other sources of Cell ID data:
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 by many, including 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 did not already exist. In the case that you create a new page, please add it here to the community page directory. Promote OpenCellIDDespite the fact that OpenCellID has been around for 5 years, this community project is still widely unknown. Though the number of contributors in Germany and in some parts of the US and Moscow are pretty high, there is still a lack of contributors and data in many other parts of the world. Invite ContributorsThere are many successful companies and developers who can potentially help contribute to OpenCellID with a pre-existing, loyal community and customer base, such as:
They would benefit from this project as they can use the community servers free of charge; all others must either run their own servers (which is expensive) or pay someone for providing such a service. A sample text for an email proposal dedicated to telematics service providers can be found here A sample text for an email proposal dedicated to developers of apps that use GPS can be found here A sample text for an email proposal 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 campaign: 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 below. Now post your picture to the OpenCellID Facebook page and let others guess where the picture has been taken. Here you can download the sticker as a PDF file for printing and here you can request to get the original OpenCellID stickers, free of charge. |