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. |
Donate data retrieved from other sources
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!
Invite Contributors
There are a lot of successful companies and developers around for which it is easy to contribute to OpenCellID and which already have a serious community / customer base like
- Telematics service providers
- developers of apps using GPS
- developers of cell-data related apps
They also would have a serious benefit from doing so because they can use the community servers free of charge whereas all others have either to run their own servers (which is expensive) or the have to pay someone for providing such a service.
A sample text for a promotion email dedicated to telematics service providers can be found here
A sample text for a promotion email dedicated to developers of apps using GPS can be found here
A sample text for a promotion email 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 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.
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.
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