[GSM] Geolocating

2008-04-23 Thread Lucas Bonnet
Hello guys, during one of my presentation of the Openmoko project, I mentionned the ability to know which GSM cell the Neo is connected to. This allows some approximate geolocating, provided you know the position of the GSM cells. It could be useful in an urban environment, where GPS isn't

Re: [GSM] Geolocating

2008-04-23 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Lucas Bonnet wrote: during one of my presentation of the Openmoko project, I mentionned the ability to know which GSM cell the Neo is connected to. This allows some approximate geolocating, provided you know the position of the GSM cells. It could be useful in an urban environment, where GPS

Re: [GSM] Geolocating

2008-04-23 Thread Lucas Bonnet
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: during one of my presentation of the Openmoko project, I mentionned the ability to know which GSM cell the Neo is connected to. This allows some approximate geolocating, provided you know the position of the GSM cells. It could be useful in

Re: [GSM] Geolocating

2008-04-23 Thread Lucas Bonnet
Marc-Olivier Barre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well the key concept here is provided you know the position of the GSM cells. Now, you might try to call you operators customer support asking them Hi, could you send me a copy of your hardware database please ?, but I doubt you would get a

Re: [GSM] Geolocating

2008-04-23 Thread Patryk Szymczak
Then another question arised: during a call, would it be possible to know the GSM cell of the other phone? Is there a way to know this, even if it requires Neos on both sides? I have a project for GSoC (SMS Middleware). Using this SW, you will be able to ask OM via SMS theoretically

Re: [GSM] Geolocating

2008-04-23 Thread Sander Hoentjen
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:17 +0200, Marc-Olivier Barre wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Lucas Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys, during one of my presentation of the Openmoko project, I mentionned the ability to know which GSM cell the Neo is connected to. This allows

Re: [GSM] Geolocating

2008-04-23 Thread Feydreva
Have a look at theses 2 projects : http://www.eppenga.com/gg-tracker/ and http://www.aspicore.com/en/tuotteet_tracker.asp?tab=2sub=2 On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Sander Hoentjen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:17 +0200, Marc-Olivier Barre wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at

Re: [GSM] Geolocating

2008-04-23 Thread Andy Powell
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 18:40, Feydreva wrote: Have a look at theses 2 projects : http://www.eppenga.com/gg-tracker/ and http://www.aspicore.com/en/tuotteet_tracker.asp?tab=2sub=2 On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Sander Hoentjen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:17

Re: [GSM] Geolocating

2008-04-23 Thread Lucas Bonnet
Flemming Richter Mikkelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have a look at theses 2 projects : http://www.eppenga.com/gg-tracker/ and http://www.aspicore.com/en/tuotteet_tracker.asp?tab=2sub=2 This is great:) Now we only need to turn this into opkg'es (maybe with some modifications) Yeah, that's

Re: [GSM] Geolocating

2008-04-23 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
On 4/23/08, Lucas Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flemming Richter Mikkelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have a look at theses 2 projects : http://www.eppenga.com/gg-tracker/ and http://www.aspicore.com/en/tuotteet_tracker.asp?tab=2sub=2 This is great:) Now we only need to turn this

Re: [GSM] Geolocating

2008-04-23 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
On 4/23/08, Flemming Richter Mikkelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/23/08, Lucas Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flemming Richter Mikkelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have a look at theses 2 projects : http://www.eppenga.com/gg-tracker/ and