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Android : Signal mapping app.

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  • 19-05-2011 2:08pm
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    clohamon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭


    Not sure if this will amount to anything or is even worthwhile.
    http://opensignalmaps.com/
    • Map nearby cell phone towers and the active tower
    • View signal strength readings and tower direction
    • View signal tower radar
    • Upload signal strength information to our database (optional)


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    PogMoThoin
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    What good is that, most people carry their phone around in their pocket? Mine is in a leather pouch, in my front jeans pocket


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    clohamon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭clohamon


    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    What good is that, most people carry their phone around in their pocket? Mine is in a leather pouch, in my front jeans pocket

    Presumably over time the signal strength maps and tower locations would be crowd-sourced automatically.


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    MS, Nokia, Google, Apple and the Operators have it all or most already.

    Comreg is *SUPPOSED* to have it, but doesn't check, properly publish or force operators to comply.

    It's mad that this should already freely exist.

    But given how the systems work, I'm thinking this information is of limited value to the ordinary public. Also "user monitored" levels depend on congestion/contention and the app has noway of knowing how many other users are connected. So it's much much poorer ever that the info Comreg is supposed to have.


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