Skyhook Wireless could be another option: http://www.skyhookwireless.com
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Anton Krasovsky <anton.krasov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sure, but I think their coverage is somewhat scarce? Yahoo Fireeagle > seems to support cellid, but I don't think is workable to ask users to > signup for Fireeagle. Then there is http://www.navizon.com/ but it's > too expensive for me at this stage. > > Anton > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If you are making request to the Twitter API you should be able to make >> request to OpenCelID to get an approximate lat/lon location. >> http://www.opencellid.org/api >> >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 04:44, Anton Krasovsky <anton.krasov...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for reply! I would be nice if you'd have considered adding >>> something >>> like that in the future - iPhones and such are nice, but there are >>> plenty more users with simplier phones that don't have GPS. >>> >>> Anton >>> >>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: >>> > hi anton. >>> > that's interesting, but, right now, we don't have anything like that on >>> > our >>> > roadmap. devices like the iPod touch, i believe, do the cell ID -> >>> > coordinate mapping internally, and then could send those coordinates to >>> > our >>> > API. >>> > >>> > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:14 PM, anton <anton.krasov...@gmail.com> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Is there any plans to support cellid based location updates for mobile >>> >> devices that aren't equipped with GPS? >>> >> >>> >> My understanding that currently to update user's location one has to >>> >> obtain users latitude and longitude, which aren't readily available on >>> >> most handsets (except the newest ones equipped with GPS) . >>> >> >>> >> It would be terrific if Twitter would allow to use cellid to update >>> >> the user's location, similar to what Google Latitude does. >>> >> >>> >> Regards, >>> >> Anton >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Raffi Krikorian >>> > Twitter Platform Team >>> > http://twitter.com/raffi >>> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org >> Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham >> Project | Awesome Lists | http://twitterli.st >> This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. >> Sent from Madison, WI, United States > -- Jonathan Markwell Engineer | Founder | Connector Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK Web application development & support Twitter & Facebook integration specialists http://inuda.com Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton - http://theskiff.org Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/jot
