GSM Location
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Stats: 14582 cells, 543425 points
Ever wanted to know where you were, but didn't have a GPS handy? Wondered about ways to use that cell phone sitting in your pocket to find out where you are?
These are things that the network providers want to offer to you -- at high cost, either to you or a partner that would charge the cost back to you.
As a broke college student, I asked myself these things. Then I got a GPS, and realized that there *is* another way around it. With some Python code and a lot of free time, I wandered around town, recording GPS traces and associating them with cell towers.
This project was born of that. I've loaded my data in, and I'm working with other people around the country (US) and the world to collect data in every city, town, country. Want to help? Grab a program, grab a GPS, and upload some data. Don't have a GPS? Use the simple form to enter your location and cell ID.
Getting Started
- Series 60 Phone Method:
- You need: Nokia Series 60 Phone, Bluetooth GPS
- Install Python for Series 60
- Get Stumblestore.py, send Stumblestore.py to your phone (via Bluetooth).
- Install as Python Script
- Start Python from the Phone Menu
- Turn on your Bluetooth GPS
- Run Script->Stumblestore.py. You will be asked to connect to your GPS.
- Click Menu->Stumble! When done, click Menu->Stop, then Menu->Upload
- Visit this page and see your cells in the latest cells box.
Social
- gsmloc-talk mailing list: For discussion of all things about the site.
- IRC: irc.freenode.net, #gsmloc
Press
Wired News: Where 2.0 Gives the World Meaning -- "When his electronic surveying is complete, Schmidt will have a system that can tell him where he is at all times -- without GPS -- by triangulating the signals from the newly mapped cell towers."