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- | ===== Where' | + | ===== Tower Track ===== |
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- | 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 " | + | A mobile |
- | {{:project: | + | Note: as signal quality varies strongly depending on the height difference and topography of the land, distance alone is not enough to paint an accurate picture of signal reception. This app __may not__ be relied upon in an emergency. |
- | A screenshot of the app (the final app UI is not complete yet) running in WebKit, detecting the user's location and showing the cell phone towers in Geneva canton on a [[http:// | + | <GITHUB loleg/tower-track-ch> |
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- | Note: signal quality varies strongly depending on the height difference and topography of the land, distance alone is not enough to paint an accurate picture of signal reception. This app __may not__ be relied upon in an emergency. | + | |
===== Data ===== | ===== Data ===== | ||
- | Cell phone tower locations in Switzerland are provided by BAKOM (department of communications) on their [[http:// | + | Cell phone tower locations in Switzerland are provided by BAKOM (department of communications) on their [[http:// |
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+ | For the hackday where this project started, a subset of the data for the Canton of Geneva | ||
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+ | //An early screenshot of the hackday app// | ||
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+ | The current version loads data about GSM tower locations (UMTS and LTE can be added in a production release), positions the map with the [[https:// | ||
- | Read more on how the open data was converted for the prototype [[http:// | + | Built around a framework that is particularly suited to new Firefox OS phones, |
===== Team ===== | ===== Team ===== | ||
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===== Links ===== | ===== Links ===== | ||
- | * Demo: **http://opendata.utou.ch/antennes** | + | * Live app: **http://towertrack.utou.ch/ |
- | * Source: | + | * https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/tower-track-ch |
- | * Blog: http://ol.posterous.com/wheres-my-tower-an-open-data-project | + | * Source: https://github.com/loleg/tower-track-ch |
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