Mockup of a mobile app that shows the promixity of the user to the nearest radio communication tower. This allows a user without reception to know in which direction to walk to get a signal, or for people trying to go as offline as possible to find the nearest “hole” in reception.

Cell phone tower locations in Switzerland are provided by BAKOM (department of communications) on their old Web Geo site, and are in the process of being migrated into a layer on the GeoAdmin API. In the meantime, the data is available on the Geneva geoportal.

* http://etat.geneve.ch/geoportail/metadataws/Publish/4949.html - metadata record for cellphone tower locations

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