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-A mobile web 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. +A mobile web app (for [[https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/tower-track-ch|Firefox OS Marketplace]] and mobile web browsers) that shows the promixity of the user to the nearest radio communication tower in Switzerland. 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. 
  
 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. 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.
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 ===== Data ===== ===== Data =====
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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://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Using_geolocation|HTML5 geolocation API]], and creates a heatmap of antennas with geoservices of the [[http://api.geo.admin.ch|GeoAdmin API]] and [[https://github.com/pa7/heatmap.js|heatmap.js]]. 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://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Using_geolocation|HTML5 geolocation API]], and creates a heatmap of antennas with geoservices of the [[http://api.geo.admin.ch|GeoAdmin API]] and [[https://github.com/pa7/heatmap.js|heatmap.js]].
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 +Built around a framework that is particularly suited to new Firefox OS phones, the app also has an experimental orientation sensor feature to rotate the map in sync with the compass on select handsets.
  
 ===== Team ===== ===== Team =====
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   * Live app: **http://towertrack.utou.ch/**   * Live app: **http://towertrack.utou.ch/**
 +  * https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/tower-track-ch
   * Source: https://github.com/loleg/tower-track-ch   * Source: https://github.com/loleg/tower-track-ch
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