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polyvertex	2010-12-05 , 16:56
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Originally Posted by zimon

And to get signal strength:
dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=comp.nokia.phone.net /com/nokia/phone/net Phone.Net.get_signal_strength

Would be nice to get those GSM/WCDMA cell IDs and strengths to the XML file also along with GPS-data. Later one could make a database of locations related to cell IDs.̈́

Cell IDs will be optionally exportable to GPX and KML files (already in progress), but without signal strength values.

Signal strength is a very volatile value and is not so much related to geolocation. Of course one can argue this is not totally true because with lot of samples of signal strength along a track, we can attempt to guess cell towers position but this is not the purpose of gpsrecorder and I don't want it to become a bloatware (it is already one in some way).

Also, be aware that there is already some cell-tower-info-collecting softwares out there, I mean embedded softwares and web platforms as well. So if building a cell towers database is what you want, be sure somebody does not already have done it for you in the area of interest

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GPS Recorder : GPS data logger to KML, GPX and CSV formats.

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