[ssl-3]

Interesting.

CellMapper, at least, is not even a little bit open source. It doesn't even have an API.

This leads me to wonder what other details that FA provides which might have been fabricated from thin air.

[gbru-ty]

If someone is focusing on extracting data for a small area, they can manually browse the CellMapper data. An API isn’t required for that—it’s a matter of accessing and analyzing what’s already available through the platform.

[ssl-3]

Does that make it "open source"?

[emilamlom]

Kinda, yeah. It's open source in the "intelligence" sense of the phrase because it's openly available information (like OSINT), but it's not freely usable.