gsm positioning

[Jussi Kukkonen]

Evening,

There's a proof-of-concept GSM position provider in git
(providers/gsmloc/). It uses libgammu to get cell id and other data from
a phone and gsmloc.org to get a position for that cell. Gammu has to be
configured for the phone (and currently the provider uses only the first
configuration in .gammurc).

I did a quick test on Neo/openmoko and getting the same data (cell id,
local area code, mobile country code, mobile network code) is fairly
easy even though there's no API yet. This is not in git yet though.

gsmloc-provider will probably stay a proof-of-concept for a while as
http://gsmloc.org/ is not exactly a vibrant community at the moment...


By the way, here's the Quote of The Day from Planet Openmoko: Zecke
talks about what they are planning:
  "This application is combining GPS, GeoClue, Jabber, your Journal with
   each other and providing a bling-bling interface using EFL. When
   walking around in a foreign city you can see where you friends are,
   were, where they haven taken their cool pictures that you have seen
   on flickr, get routing with OpenStreetmap to find your way, see
   people with the same interests as you, take a city tour people like
   you have enjoyed, let your Freerunner guide you through the city, go
   sight-seeing or just chat with your relatives back home (and
   certainly be able to control your privacy). I hope we will have some
   more videos up in the next couple of weeks."
http://zecke.blogspot.com/2008/03/qtwebkit-illume-and-diversity.html

A bit of hype, I suppose (e.g. openstreetmap routing sounds like a pipe
dream at moment), but interesting...

Jussi

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