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Cellumap: Make your own cellular coverage maps!

0 replies · 3,865 views · Started 16 August 2009

Hi All,

I'd like to announce here that CELLUMAP is now available to public Beta testing!

http://www.cellumap.com

...what is Cellumap? It's a revolution in cellular coverage maps, in that all the plots are made by YOU the subscriber, and NOT the network operator, who often only releases high-level and outdated coverage plots to the public.

How can you make your own coverage plots? Read more here, but basically you need a Symbian OS9.x (S60 3rd or 5th) phone with a GPS, and having a data subscription would be useful if you plan to use it alot. But in short, when you run the app on your phone, it starts the phones GPS, and takes the coordinates and a snapshot of the cellular network, and sends the data to the Cellumap server, where you can then view this point in real-time on a Google-Map display. best of all, it's all freeware!

Here's a map display of some signal strength points recorded on Long Island:
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Here's some of the phone app:
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all phone-app screenshots

So far it's been tested on a E71, N95 and a 5800, but should work on any Symbian S60 phone with GPS. And in any country world-wide.