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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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bigiain
1948 days ago
Where I come from, locations are published by the government/regulator:
https://web.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/site_proximity.main_page/
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thinkingemote
1948 days ago
interesting! Do you know the license / copyright terms for that data?
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bigiain
1948 days ago
I do not, sorry.
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BigBalli
1940 days ago
Yes and no. They leverage mobile devices to report data. It's like an entire population is wardriving lol.
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kube-system
1948 days ago
Yes, it appears that is how they get some of their data:
http://wiki.opencellid.org/wiki/Data_sources
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https://web.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/site_proximity.main_page/