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Be vewwy vewwy quiet. We're hunting cell towers.
"You know PokΓ©mon Go? It's like that."
Tell me more, how can I get into it? I want to hunt cell towers in my town too.
Install the app, enable recording
Wow that's oddly interesting, I can actually see which towers in my area belong to which provider and the exact specs of each cell
What do you do with a tower once you've caught it?
also, what is the purpose, to see if its where it says it is, or is it like tracking and hiking?
Find new macro cell sites and small cells
Find new capabilities on those sites (new spectrum, equipment, sector splits, etc.)
Know more about the network you're using
Diagnose problems. Even if you can't personally do anything about them, there's something satisfying about understanding why you're having a problem (and possibly how to mitigate it).
The green pins have been manually positioned by a user. The red pins are a calculated approximate (which can be way off). Sites can (and usually do) have multiple pins, for reasons.
It's way, way easier to collect the data now that CellMapper exists. It almost makes it less fun.
I assume it's like Don Quixote with windmills
That makes sense
This looks super neat, and would give me good reason to go down roads I haven't before.
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