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June 1, 2007
Geo-hackers - The Zonetag API Goes Public
ZoneTag is a little prototype that was developed by Yahoo! Research Berkeley. A look under the hood shows that it's built on top of a couple of interesting APIs that we're opening up. Anything that ZoneTag can do, you could do as well.
Want to know the location of a cell tower? Update the location of a cell tower? Get a list of suggested tags for a location? Open your web service to any mobile ZoneTag user without having to do mobile programming? It's all possible! Have a look at the documentation.
Don't forget, WhereCampSF is happening this weekend. What better place to meet other geo-hackers and geo-enthusiasts, and play with ZoneTag location web services?
Posted at June 1, 2007 3:26 PM
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Using ZoneTag as follows:
I receive the following:
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USA
I retrieve the required parameters from my AirCard881 using AT!GSMINFO? as follows:
at!gsminfo?
!GSMINFO:
Serving Cell:
PLMN: 310410
LAC: 20006
Cell ID: 10661
BSIC: 39
NCC: 4
BSCC: 7
RAC: 101
Min Rx Lvl Rqd: -110
Max Rach: Not Available
Band: 850
ARFCN: 225
RX level (dBm): -69
C1: 41
C2: 41
C31: 0
C32: 0
Neighbour Cells:
Band: 850 850 850 850 850
ARFCN: 226 230 217 219 221
RAC: 0 0 0 0 0
RX level (dBm): -73 -77 -78 -79 -81
C1: 37 33 32 31 29
C2: 37 33 32 31 29
C31: 0 0 0 0 0
C32: 0 0 0 0 0
Why does ZoneTag return incomplete location data?
Posted by: JackG at April 1, 2009 6:12 PM
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