List of Irish mobile cells masts : ids & locations

CreepingDeath

Hi,

does anyone have a list of O2 / all mobile providers cell tower id's and their location ( gps or Irish national grid ) ?

I'm just playing with some java development tools and can get the
"MCC, MNC, LAC and cell id".
Which basically means country, network provider, LAC which is some location id (doesn't seem to change between Lucan and Dublin city centre), and the mobile cell id my phone is communicating with.

Would be nice to have a list of cell id's and locations, as a sort of poor man's GPS system.

I see that ComReg has a utility... Link

but no way of downloading the entire list and saving it for easy lookup on a phone mobile.

cheers,
CD

Walkman

Do not place too much trust in that ComReg site as AFAIK it is very much out of date, any new sites put up by the networks in the last few months are not on the map

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Google Maps for mobile already does this.

Walkman

Jolie Gifted Toad wrote: »

Google Maps for mobile already does this.

Have you got a link?

CreepingDeath

Walkman wrote:

Do not place too much trust in that ComReg site as AFAIK it is very much out of date, any new sites put up by the networks in the last few months are not on the map

Cheers, yeah, I have 2 cell id's and they're not being found.
At least now I know it's probably not my fault.

Jolie Gifted Toad wrote:

Google Maps for mobile already does this.

Thanks, I'll have a look.
I know they have a new "latitude" service out.

Although I prefer MGMaps Link
Mainly cos I can download the large sections of map data in advance on the PC, copy it to my phone and not have to worry about data download charges as the map tiles are pre-cached.
( I have all of Dublin down to street level on my phone in approx 73mb)

I suspect that Google maps will have some form of online service which your mobile calls to get the location, as opposed to a list stored on the phone.

This is purely a development exercise, no serious application, just experimenting. For anyone that's interested, on a Sony K800 you can write some simple J2ME code to retrieve the following

// country code
String mcc = System.getProperty("com.sonyericsson.net.mcc");
// country network provider
String mnc = System.getProperty("com.sonyericsson.net.mnc");
// location area code
String lac = System.getProperty("com.sonyericsson.net.lac");
// cell id
String cellid = System.getProperty("com.sonyericsson.net.cellid");

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http://www.google.com/mobile/nokia_standard/maps.html


if your phone doesn't have GPS, it will use your current cell-id for your approximate location.

Zionist

I have all the long and lats of o2 and voda masts PM me and I will send them on