Where are you or your phone?

Usable knowledge is you got a phone in your stolen car, or have a cellular phone connected toy your laptop. The GPS system is a lot more accurate, but you need special GPS receiving equipment.

If you can take out the Cell ID of your phone and use it on your laptop/palm/windows CE machine you have a cheap location based service.

I’m undergoing work to start collecting GSM Cell ID Locations in Denmark, this should be a job of dimensions, because the number of cells for each operator is huge.

The locations of the masts are given by this page:

http://www.mastedatabasen.dk

Next step is to locate what masts have what Cell ID’s – any comment on this is welcome.

I’m thinking of setting up a database, where you can plot in the Cell ID and the operator and location of the Cell. The phone companies are not very helpful :(

Australian guy, that does some of it:

http://home.iprimus.com.au/cridland/
How to read the cell information http://home.iprimus.com.au/cridland/netmonitor.htm#CID

Maneging youtr Vodafone 3G Card with AT Commands:
http://www.pharscape.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=29
http://gatling.ikk.sztaki.hu/~kissg/gsm/at+c.html