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* find a place to live with low radio emission | * find a place to live with low radio emission | ||
* get a GPS position even if GPS is not available, e.g. in buildings | * get a GPS position even if GPS is not available, e.g. in buildings | ||
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Have fun with being a member of a successful community. | Have fun with being a member of a successful community. | ||
Revision as of 03:24, 8 January 2014
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OpenCellID provides 100% free cell-id data (CC-BY-SA 3.0 license)
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.
Why contributing to OpenCellID?
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.
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