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− | [https://location.services.mozilla.com/ Mozilla Location Service] and OpenCellID agreed back in 2014 to share their data. MLS at that time was able to implement a regular import of OpenCellID cell locations in short time whereas OpenCellID at that time was busy with rewriting the entire code for the OpenCellID server software including a serious clean-up of the existing cell locations data (see below).<br> | + | [https://location.services.mozilla.com/ Mozilla Location Service] (MLS) and OpenCellID agreed back in 2014 to share their data. MLS at that time was able to implement a regular import of OpenCellID cell locations in short time whereas OpenCellID at that time was busy with rewriting the entire code for the OpenCellID server software including a serious clean-up of the existing cell locations data (see below).<br> |
Early 2016 the OpenCellID developers finally started implementing an automatic regular import of the MLS cell location data. The initial import is currently in progress and should be completed within the next few days. | Early 2016 the OpenCellID developers finally started implementing an automatic regular import of the MLS cell location data. The initial import is currently in progress and should be completed within the next few days. | ||
− | Since MLS currently has approx. | + | Since MLS currently has approx. 19 Million unique GSM/CDMA cells in its database which OpenCellID does not have - this merge of data is a great benefit for all users of the OpenCellID database. |
Thanks to the MLS CC-0 license we can merge the MLS data into the OpenCellID database which makes it seamless for all OpenCellID users to access the database: no changes of any code is required.<br> | Thanks to the MLS CC-0 license we can merge the MLS data into the OpenCellID database which makes it seamless for all OpenCellID users to access the database: no changes of any code is required.<br> |
Revision as of 13:48, 30 March 2016
March 25th, 2016Mozilla Location Service (MLS) and OpenCellID agreed back in 2014 to share their data. MLS at that time was able to implement a regular import of OpenCellID cell locations in short time whereas OpenCellID at that time was busy with rewriting the entire code for the OpenCellID server software including a serious clean-up of the existing cell locations data (see below). Since MLS currently has approx. 19 Million unique GSM/CDMA cells in its database which OpenCellID does not have - this merge of data is a great benefit for all users of the OpenCellID database. Thanks to the MLS CC-0 license we can merge the MLS data into the OpenCellID database which makes it seamless for all OpenCellID users to access the database: no changes of any code is required. We are very happy that this collaboration of two Open Source communities works so smooth and cooperative for the benefit of all being interested in having access to free cell location information. We would like to use this opportunity saying a warm "THANK YOU" to Hanno and the entire MLS team. January 10th, 2016There are a few (less than 10) APIkeys which are heavily misusing the OpenCellID API in one or the other way. Last week this raised to a total of 100-160 requests every second, so more than 10 million unauthorized requests per day, and caused a noticeable drop of the performance of the OpenCellID servers. On top of that we constantly receive ten thousands of requests every day without any APIkey or with a fake APIkey. Therefore it was decided that these APIkeys and requests are blocked in our load balancers and will not get ANY feedback from the platform anymore. November 13th, 2015The long awaited data cleanup has been completed! Then we approached all issues regarding the improvement of the quality of the data. As a first step we implemented a variety of filters to ensure filtering out all bad data from newly arriving measurements. This was completed early 2015. Then we started to clean up all existing data. Then we recreated all computations of the positions of all cell IDs. This has been completed today. This means for you that in case you are working with the OpenCellID measurements_??.csv.gz files you should download ALL existing files again in order to work with the latest cell tower position tables. Those of you using the OpenCellID API already enjoy the updated data. Nothing to be done in this regards. November 19th, 2014Version 3.5.0 has been launched with the following new features: Backend:
UI: Wiki: Next steps: cleanup of the existing data; we made some progress but this task is not yet finished; completion expected in Q1/2015 September 29th, 20141 Million unique cells have been reached in Germany:
September 1st, 2014Version 3.4.0 has been launched with the following new features: Backend:
UI: Wiki: August 23rd, 2014OpenCellID last night exceeded the number of 1.000.000.000 (1 Billion) measurements thanks to its great community of contributors!
August 22nd, 2014Version 3.3.9.2 has been launched with the following new features: Backend: UI: Wiki: August 1st, 2014Mozilla Location Service announced its collaboration with OpenCellID here July 29th, 2014Version 3.3.9.1 has been launched. Backend: UI: Wiki: July 28th, 2014Business Geomatics read here (German) July 20th, 2014Open Source Software Guide: read here July 19th, 2014Liberales Forum: read here July 18th, 2014Important German "Linux Magazin" publishes OpenCellID article. July 16th, 2014German press release: Android library has been released: Download PDF file July 7th, 2014Version 3.3.8 was launched;
June 23rd, 2014English press release: Android library has been released: Press release OpenCellID Android library June 20th, 2014German press release published for finding additional telematics service providers as contributors: Pressemeldung OpenCellID Telematik-Anbieter June 2nd, 2014Version 3.3.5.2 was launched; this is the fastest OpenCellID version to date.
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