Tower Collector
3.7star
399 reviews
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About this app
Tower Collector gives you opportunity to contribute in OpenCellID.org and Mozilla Location Services projects by uploading GPS locations of GSM/UMTS/LTE/CDMA/TD-SCDMA/5G (NR) cell towers from your area. The measurements help map the extent of mobile phone network coverage. You can use the app to collect data for personal purposes and export them to various files.
Some features:
• specially optimized GPS parameters to reduce battery drain
• upload to OpenCellID.org and Mozilla Location Services (MLS) projects
• export to SD card as CSV, JSON, GPX, KML and KMZ.
• ad-free, forever!
The OpenCellID.org project goal is to create a worldwide open source database of mobile cell locations. Tower Collector gives you opportunity to contribute in OpenCellID project by uploading cell towers locations from your area. Collected data can be used to quickly locate devices without enabling GPS.
Mozilla Location Services (MLS) is an open source project, aiming to create a worldwide database of wireless network infrastructure identifiers (cell towers, WiFi access points, Bluetooth beacons) correlated with GPS locations. Aggregated cell location set is available under the public domain "Creative Commons (CC-0)" license.
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This application does not collect, store or send any information which can be used to directly identify user, device which is being used or any other personal information.
BUG REPORTS AND FEATURE REQUEST VIA EMAIL OR GITHUB ISSUES PLEASE.
Some features:
• specially optimized GPS parameters to reduce battery drain
• upload to OpenCellID.org and Mozilla Location Services (MLS) projects
• export to SD card as CSV, JSON, GPX, KML and KMZ.
• ad-free, forever!
The OpenCellID.org project goal is to create a worldwide open source database of mobile cell locations. Tower Collector gives you opportunity to contribute in OpenCellID project by uploading cell towers locations from your area. Collected data can be used to quickly locate devices without enabling GPS.
Mozilla Location Services (MLS) is an open source project, aiming to create a worldwide database of wireless network infrastructure identifiers (cell towers, WiFi access points, Bluetooth beacons) correlated with GPS locations. Aggregated cell location set is available under the public domain "Creative Commons (CC-0)" license.
Please help me translate it to other languages, visit https://i18n.zamojski.feedback/
This application does not collect, store or send any information which can be used to directly identify user, device which is being used or any other personal information.
BUG REPORTS AND FEATURE REQUEST VIA EMAIL OR GITHUB ISSUES PLEASE.
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Ratings and reviews
3.7
386 reviews
Alex Yuan (AySz88)
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October 28, 2022
App does a good job but I wish it had: 1. A safety to avoid collecting & submitting a ton of samples (especially new one-sample towers) exactly on top of home/office. Maybe exclusion areas where e.g. collection pauses, data removed from upload, or noise added 2. Show prior submissions or tower position estimates. I understand dev saying this isn't the app's purpose, but it'd still be VERY helpful to know where data exists already (even just my own), and to target what's inaccurate.
11 people found this review helpful
Adam Zamojski
October 28, 2022
Both features have been requested long time ago and I see them valid but due to limited free time I have to develop the app they need to way some more time.
Kevin Ritter
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April 16, 2022
Collected data on signal strength at different locations where I was. I captured the tower identifier, but I could not get it to show me where the towers were actually located on the map.
14 people found this review helpful
Adam Zamojski
April 16, 2022
The main purpose of the app is to collect data, not to present cell towers locations. There're many others which do that well. The feature you mention will be addressed in the future.
Gabubu
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October 2, 2021
Hello. This is a great app for me. But I have a problem with the map. I have the mobile data turned on and... the map still doesn't appear. If is a mistake made by me, can you tell me what can I do? Please. And btw, this is the perfect app for me :D
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Adam Zamojski
October 2, 2021
Hello, thanks :-) Please check in app preferences, under map settings if you have not accidentally enabled option to update map only on unmetered networks like wifi. If it doesn't help please send me an email and we'll check together mail+toco@zamojski.info
What's new
IMPORTANT!
Mozilla have made the decision to retire the service and new measurements are no longer accepted. Read more: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/retiring-the-mozilla-location-service/128693
The option to upload to Mozilla Location Services temporarily remains available, but I will only try to upload the measurements if custom MLS-compatible address is provided in Preferences.
Mozilla have made the decision to retire the service and new measurements are no longer accepted. Read more: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/retiring-the-mozilla-location-service/128693
The option to upload to Mozilla Location Services temporarily remains available, but I will only try to upload the measurements if custom MLS-compatible address is provided in Preferences.