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About the project transfer, I have just sent the website source code to MickR.

I will now generate the maps once a week.

Here is a new article talking about the project in German

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,825561,00.html

Mick(Rideout) has declared his interest in taking in charge the project.
Big thanks to him !

We are now working on transferring the back-end from windows XP to linux.
First task is to transfer the postgres/postgis database from XP to linux.

During that time, the maps will be generated every 3 or 7 days.

Nick

I today released the source code of the server side version 2.0.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/myposition/files/openBmap%20server%20-%20Maps%20generation/v2.0/

This is the server version that I am currently using to generate all the wifi and cellular maps, stats, graphs you can see on http://openBmap.org.

The postgresql/postgis dumps are yet missing, I am going to release a few dumps during the next days.... read more

The backend server source code will be available in the next few days.

The backend server was the last part of the project that was not yet open source with its final version.

Please consult the main wiki page to know the architecture of the project:

https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/myposition/index.php?title=Main_Page

At last, I made available the source code for the windows phone 6 platform

1) the cellular 1.6 client
2) the wifi stumbler 1.0

https://sourceforge.net/projects/myposition/files/openBmap%20Windows%20Phone%206%20client/

I have posted the global architecture of the project: clients, website, server/backend

https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/myposition/index.php?title=Main_Page

The server/backend used for map generation will be very soon available on the AGPL v3 licence

You already know that we love open source and open data initiatives like openstreetmap.

We are really proud today to announce that the server side which includes the maps generations is planned to go open source.

The full server side will be open source on september 2012.

We integrated openlayers 2.11 into the cellular maps with OSM. It must be possible now to browse the cellular maps from your mobile devices.

http://openbmap.org/with_osm6.php5

cheers!

Due to previous web hoster decision, it is not possible anymore to upload data to the previous website.

The use of the openmoko patch - Matija Nalis [Sat, 8 Oct 2011 12:24:49 +0000] - becomes now mandatory to be able to upload data to openbmap.org.

Following the proposal from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNIL">CNIL</a>, openBmap clients will soon stop logging positions of Wifi access points with an ssid ending with "_nomap".

A bug mentioned by James prevented GSM maps to be generated.

This bug was introduced on 24th of September and corrected on 12th of November. All impacted maps have been corrected by now.

I have added support for an alternative Firefox geolocation as described http://openbmap.org/api/openbmap_api.php5

Setting up your firefox, it will send the surrounding wifi access points to the openBmap api

If any of these wifi access points are in the openBmap database, it will return your position.

If no wifi access point is sent or if no wifi access point is found in the database, it will use the IP address to get your position.... read more

Mapping Manager is now calculating for each 2G and 3G cells the density of surrounding cells.

From a cell position, it calculates the number of cell in the surrounding 1 km2 square.

With this link
http://realtimeblog.free.fr/maps/with_google_earth.php?mcc=208&mnc=1&lac=1024&cellid=54865&step=4

you can see that there are 12 cells in the 1 km2 square around the cell 54865

This release of GeoTag File manager adapts to the past month changes in Facebook API.

It uses now templates and feed_publishUserAction.

openBmap is a free and open map of wireless communicating objects (e.g. cellular antenna, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth). It provides tools to mutualize data, create and access this map.

RealtimeBlog is the first application to use and produce openBmap data. RealtimeBlog geo-positions your photos (based on GPS or cellular position), generates kml files for Google Earth and shares these files with friends updating your Facebook mini-feed.