Mobile Location

A labs.ericsson.com enablerhttp://labs.ericsson.com/apis/mobile-location/

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Mobile Location

There are a number of ways to find the position of an end-user’s mobile phone, one of those is cell-ID which is the basis for this first step of the Mobile Location API.

An API for translating a cell-ID from a mobile phone network into a geographical position

Positioning that can be used for any device that supports reading of cell-ID

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Why Mobile Location?

Positioning for any device that supports reading the cell-ID of the network cell that the user is currently registered to

Supported by Java ME, Android, Symbian, S60, Windows Mobile and more

No GPS or other positioning technology needed

No dependancy on the mobile operator network

Mobile Location cell-ID Look-up provides positioning for location based applications available for most mobile platforms

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Main Features of Mobile Location

Simple web service for translating cell-IDs to into geographical positions

Access to a cell-ID database with global coverage

Free to use for any developer of mobile applications

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Mobile Location Overview

• You get the cell-ID

from the user’s device

and send it to cell-ID

Look-up

cell-ID

• Cell-ID Look-up finds

the position of that

cell

• Cell-ID Look-up

sends the location to

you

cell-IDDB

Retrieve the cell-ID from the device your application is running on

Use the Cell-ID Lookup API to translate the Cell-ID into a geographical position

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Mobile Location API

Retrieve the location of your users with a simple call to the Mobile Location API

http://cellid.labs.ericsson.net/xml/lookup?cellid=0008c257&mnc=08&mcc=240&l

ac=017c&key=YOUR_API_KEY

Example request:

<position>

<accuracy>382.0</accuracy>

<latitude>59.40364456176758</latitude>

<longitude>17.94533348083496</longitude>

<name>Helenelund (Kista), SE</name>

</position>

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