Mobile phone location.

yop · 07-07-2008 8:28am #1

Is there a way to know what mast you are using on your mobile?

Its just an idea I came up with but need to know the "location" of the mobile phone user and I presume I can do this from knowing what mobile they are broadcasting from.
Or is that readily available at all?

Thank you

flodis79 · 07-07-2008 8:33am

What phone are you using? On symbian there is a whole range of apps doing this, e.g. Psiloc MiniGPS, PyNetMony, PhoNetInfo and more. They show you the current cell, neighbouring cells, and a whole lot of other tidbits. You can even set some of the apps to execute certain tasks when you enter a specific cell.

yop · 07-07-2008 8:37am

Its an "every phone" application really to be honest, from any make or model of mobile phone.
Its for a "location based" application I have to write.

Thanks

Sam Vimes · 07-07-2008 8:46am

http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=google+location+api&btnG=Search&meta=

edit: i don't mean to suggest that you should have just googled it since you didn't know the api existed. it's just that no one of the links will fully describe the api

yop · 07-07-2008 8:49am

Taking this to another level.

If someone sends a text message, can the location of the mobile be included in the text message OR can the receiver of the text discover the location of the text sender

, without any pre installed software on the senders phone.

Sam Vimes · 07-07-2008 9:06am

yop wrote: »

Taking this to another level.

If someone sends a text message, can the location of the mobile be included in the text message OR can the receiver of the text discover the location of the text sender , without any pre installed software on the senders phone.

without installed software, no. with installed software, yes.

laoisfan · 07-07-2008 10:01am

do not mean to take this thread off topic but does any of the operators here support "Area Info" ? i know when i go to the UK that i get area info on my phone, either the name of the area i am in (or nearest mast i am connected too) or the local area-code ( e.g. 012345).

i have an SE 810i btw.

just curious.

yop · 07-07-2008 10:04am

laoisfan wrote: »

do not mean to take this thread off topic but does any of the operators here support "Area Info" ? i know when i go to the UK that i get area info on my phone, either the name of the area i am in (or nearest mast i am connected too) or the local area-code ( e.g. 012345).

i have an SE 810i btw.

just curious.

Thats what I would require also.

laoisfan · 07-07-2008 10:09am

yop wrote: »

Thats what I would require also.

when i was in Sydney i would always know roughly what area i was in, and melbourne too with the area info.

i suspect none of the operators here broadcast it though.

Sam Vimes · 07-07-2008 10:25am

the way to do this is to write a j2me program and make use of the google location api.

download the google maps program and you'll see it in action. there's a feature called "My location" and it tells you where you are within 100 feet or so and it works in a lot of places in ireland, but not everywhere.

getting the information appended to a normal text message is more difficult. i think that it could be done on a symbian phone but it's probably not possible with java.

a j2me program can send text messages so one possible implemenation would be for the user to send a text using your program, which could append the location given by the location api to the text.

what is the purpose of the program you have to write?

Mobile phone location.

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