movement tracking through gprs coordinates?

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Felix Joachim

Hi,

what do you think about this idea?
Apparently using GPS isn't an option due to costs.

Are the coordinates accessible through .NetCF (perhaps with some help by
OpenNetCF)?
 
Oh well, what I really meant is this:
Would it be easy to access the current information about the signal strength
from different antennas to calculate the current position?
 
These days the one off cost of a basic bluetooth gps receiver is trivial and
there is plenty of code available for parsing NMEA data, and will be far and
away more useful than gsm tower positioning. The data on tower ids and
signal strengths is not directly available through any simple APIs, you'll
probably end up needing to talk to RIL (Radio Interface Layer) which isn't
formally documented. You then have the issue of not having a database which
will match those tower ids to a physical location.

Peter
 
Somebody told me that it would be possible to get the GSM information through
the Mobile 2003 SDK.
From what you wrote I gathered that this is wrong.

We would probably have to talk to the builder of the PDA we use, to get some
special API to access the RIL?

After searching a bit on google it sounds like this isn't something you can
do alone in about 2 month without any real experience in this area... :/

bye,
felix
 
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