Hi! it seems questions always come when you are out of town ;-) So sorry for the delay of this answer...
On 05/03/2010 12:18 PM, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > does anyone know what's the current status of GSM base station -based > positioning services.. > How do the different databases compare to each other nowadays? > Well could you be more specific? > Are there clients to position the user based on the GSM base stations, > with on- or offline databases? Yes, but none which are really "production ready", AFAIK. I mean, packaged, tested, ready for end user. Nevertheless, it is supposed to work at least basically. > It'd be great to be able to detect the approximate location from GSM > signal and then hook up to GPS faster.. > Baruch did some work on the vala implemented openBmap-locator code. I am not sure what is the status of it. The code is located on the openBmap sourceforge git repository. Onen _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community