[ gpsdrive ] Fwd: GSM base stations

[Guenther Meyer]

> > Hi,
> >
> > I made a patch for GPSDrive to not only show WLAN access points, but also
> > GSM base stations. This patch is based on one of the last SVN versions.
> > So this is easy to upload.
> >
> > This is possible, because the O2 phone network in germany sends the
> > location of the current base station in Gauss-Krüger format on cell
> > broadcasting channel 221. Further information on the base station, such
> > as channel, ci, mcc, mnc and lac, are available depending on the network
> > monitoring functionality of the used mobile phone (Siemens S55 in my
> > case).
> >
> > The functionality is not limit to the Siemens S55. Especially certain
> > other Siemens phones are using very similar or equal commands. Other
> > vendors have monitoring functions or at least cell broadcasting functions
> > too.
> >
> > The patch adds three things:
> > - new gsm table in mysql database
> > - perl script to download information from Siemens phones to the database
> > - GPSDrive gsm functions and new button to active it on the left
> >

I woudn't add a separate button into gpsdrive, I would leave it to the already 
present poi-management.
It should be enough, to have a script or a daemon, that writes the information 
into the poi-table in gpsdrive's geoinfo database with a special poi-type.

but as tweety already mentioned, you should wait until after the release 
because then there will be also some significant changes to the database.


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