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===September 1st, 2014===
 
===September 1st, 2014===

Revision as of 11:08, 29 September 2014

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September 29th, 2014

1 Million unique cells have been reached in Germany:

1-million-cells-in-germany.png

Here you can find the number of cells by network operator:


September 1st, 2014

Version 3.4.0 has been launched with the following new features:

Backend:

  • Export of hourly diff files with cells has been added. Diff files older than 3 days will be deleted. The diff files have the same format as the full export file. Each user can download a diff file max 3x per day. Details about the format of diff files can be found here
  • An additional mechanism has been implemented that limits the API read requests to 1000 read operations per day for all users without a special agreement with OpenCellID.
  • psc/pci values have been added to the cell data. This data is now also added to the file of exported cells and in the affected API requests. Details can be found here
  • The range (radius) of each cell has been added to the cell export CSV file as well as to the affected API requests. Currently the data provided for most of the cells is not valid. This column will be filled with accurate data after the database cleanup which is planned later this year.
  • Duplicate measurements are filtered out. If two consecutive measurements for the same cell have the same coordinates, then second measurement will be filtered out.
  • Collaboration with the Mozilla Location Service project. The format of export cells files is unified for the both projects. The same filters for newly incoming measurements are applied in OpenCellID as in MLS, in particular filters based on the geographical location. Currently the cells data provided by OpenCellID is not fully compatible with MLS' data, because of missing range values. It will be fixed after the database cleanup which is planned later this year. It is planned later this year to import MLS' cells into the OpenCellID database for enahncing the number of knwn cells. Details about the format of export cells files can be found here
  • Newly incoming measurements are assumed to be suspected if they are more than 150km away from current average cell position of the related cell. Before the DB cleanup, the filter will be enabled only for precise cells, because calculated cells might currently have wrong coordinates. After the DB cleanup, we will apply the filter for all cells.
  • MCC of incoming data is verified now according to geographical location: in case the MCC of a measurement does not match with the country the measurements GPS coordinate is pointing to, then the measurement is treated to be suspected. For now a square around each country is used with a distance to the country border of 40 km to 100 km depending on the latitude.
    It is planned to improve this validation in 2015 by using accurate country border data.

UI:
no changes

Wiki:
API documentation was updated

August 23rd, 2014

OpenCellID last night exceeded the number of 1.000.000.000 (1 Billion) measurements thanks to its great community of contributors!

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August 22nd, 2014

Version 3.3.9.2 has been launched with the following new features:

Backend:
- support for 'device name' field (brand and model of the device)
- support for 'TX power' and 'temperature' fields
- backend support for hours based statistics; not yet supported by UI
- improved error message in case an apiKey is not white listed
- IP address is stored of the server which requested a new OpenCellID user account
- blocking of "new user" requests if a new user has already been created from the same IP within the last 24 hours

UI:
no changes

Wiki:
API documentation was updated

August 1st, 2014

Mozilla Location Service announced its collaboration with OpenCellID here

July 29th, 2014

Version 3.3.9.1 has been launched.

Backend:
Full support for GSM, UMTS, LTE, CDMA network types including
- enhancement of import files
- enhancement of export files
- enhancement of public API
- enhanced filter for incoming measurements

UI:
not yet updated for supporting enhanced data structure

Wiki:
Wiki documentation was updated

July 28th, 2014

Business Geomatics read here (German)

July 20th, 2014

Open Source Software Guide: read here

July 19th, 2014

Liberales Forum: read here

July 18th, 2014

Important German "Linux Magazin" publishes OpenCellID article.

July 16th, 2014

German press release: Android library has been released: Download PDF file

July 7th, 2014

Version 3.3.8 was launched;

  • Italian language added to UI - thank you Lorenzo for the translation!
  • powerful new filter options in the statistics section
  • permalink in upper left map screen corner:
    allows users to create a link with a given zoom level and area which makes it easy to return to this area later; this can, for instance, be used to supervise a select area.
  • detect hex MCC/MNC numbers and convert them to decimal: needed for some Blackberry data
  • method added for checking the online status of OpenCellid: http://opencellid.org/ocid/status
  • enhancement of features that allows users to avoid misuse of the community servers
    Information about white listing can be found here.
    • introduction of white list for accounts that do not contribute data
    • apiKey must be entered for database download
    • apiKeys of new users are blocked automaticaly if they do not contribute data for a certain period of time
  • "I forogot my apiKey" feature added to main menu in database section
  • API enhancements
    • JSON format option added to various API calls
    • network type added to various API calls
  • OpenCellID test environment http://test-ocid.enaikoon.de/ is now public. The software on this MongoDB cluster is frequently updated, typically showing the latest achieved status. The version number does NOT change with each update. Warning: this is NOT a stable release and may be down or contain corrupted data at any time. It is also slower than the production system due to artificially limited hardware resources that makes it easier to find inefficient code.
  • CSV files with the most up-to-date measurements will always be named 'last_measurements.csv.gz' in the download section from now on
  • various bug fixes

June 23rd, 2014

English press release: Android library has been released: Pressemeldung OpenCellID Android library

June 20th, 2014

German press release published for finding additional telematics service providers as contributors: Pressemeldung OpenCellID Telematik-Anbieter

June 2nd, 2014

Version 3.3.5.2 was launched; this is the fastest OpenCellID version to date.

  • all statistics are now calculated in real time, typically in less than 5 seconds
  • more than 20 million records can be received per day; this is approx. 8 times more than before
  • Kafka waiting queues have been activated in case too many new measurements are contributed at the same time
  • the tables for measurements and cell towers were separated into different databases to avoid collisions