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by thinkingemote 1948 days ago
The key thing is how does the tower_list get populated with the lat, lon fields.

Its basically wardriving.

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Where I come from, locations are published by the government/regulator:

https://web.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/site_proximity.main_page/

interesting! Do you know the license / copyright terms for that data?
I do not, sorry.
Yes and no. They leverage mobile devices to report data. It's like an entire population is wardriving lol.
Yes, it appears that is how they get some of their data: http://wiki.opencellid.org/wiki/Data_sources