[android-developers] Re: Capabilities of Location API

2008-10-20 Thread NickDG
On Oct 16, 10:29 am, NickDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're investigating the possibility of creating a smart phone application that uses the GSM network to determine the location of the phone. We will study different methods of calculating positions and to do that we need extensive data

[android-developers] Capabilities of Location API

2008-10-16 Thread NickDG
We want to develop an application that uses the GSM network to get a position. There are several methods for getting a position based on cell tower info but to achieve a acceptable level of accuracy the info (ID, signal strength, ...) of *all* visible cell towers is needed, not just from the

[android-developers] Capabilities of Location API

2008-10-16 Thread NickDG
We're investigating the possibility of creating a smart phone application that uses the GSM network to determine the location of the phone. We will study different methods of calculating positions and to do that we need extensive data about the network such as IDs, signal strengths, etc of cell