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As of Jul 1, 2014, the database contained more than 5 million unique GSM Cell IDs and 850 million <u>[[measurements]]</u>.
 
As of Jul 1, 2014, the database contained more than 5 million unique GSM Cell IDs and 850 million <u>[[measurements]]</u>.
  
OpenCellID provides '''100% free Cell ID data''' (CC-BY-SA 3.0 license);<br>
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OpenCellID provides '''100% free Cell ID data''' (CC-BY-SA 3.0 license).<br>
the OpenCellID database is published under a <u>[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons]</u> open content license with the intention of promoting free use and redistribution of the data.
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The OpenCellID database is published under a <u>[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons]</u> open content license with the intention of promoting free use and redistribution of the data.
 
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===[[Glossary]]===
 
===[[Glossary]]===

Revision as of 20:27, 6 July 2014

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What is OpenCellID?

OpenCellID is the world's largest collaborative community project that collects GPS positions of cell towers, used free of charge, for a multitude of commercial and private purposes.

More than 15,000 contributors have already registered with OpenCellID, contributing more than 1 million new measurements every day in average to the OpenCellID database. Detailed statistics are available in real time.

The OpenCellID project was primarily created to serve as a data source for GSM localisation.
As of Jul 1, 2014, the database contained more than 5 million unique GSM Cell IDs and 850 million measurements.

OpenCellID provides 100% free Cell ID data (CC-BY-SA 3.0 license).
The OpenCellID database is published under a Creative Commons open content license with the intention of promoting free use and redistribution of the data.

Glossary