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by gesman 2240 days ago
It plots cell towers in the middle of my residential neighborhood where i absolutely sure there aren't any
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jcims 2240 days ago
https://community.opencellid.org/t/range-of-a-tower/370/2

>The range field tells you the approximate area within which the cell could be, in metres. This is effectively an estimate of how accurate the location is.

There's one marked in the middle of a corn field near me with a range of 48,000m. ?

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leeoniya 2240 days ago
maybe they're Stingrays ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker

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gesman 2240 days ago
Maybe. However cellmapper.net shows few cell towers where they actually exists and this map doesn't show them.

Credibility?

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