LONG & LAT WANTED

[Marks adventure]

Hi

I was on holiday in Gambia and made a phonecall on my mobile to another mobile in the UK.

Is there anyway i can get the long's and lat's from the call i made?

I would like to see on google earth exactly where i was in the town.

Thanks

 

[half_empty1]

have you contacted your mobile service provider?

i would reckon they would be the only people to have records of where you where.

 

[LiquidLAN]

All sounds very suspect... most of us would just look outside at the road name

 

[markie_wales]

Hi

I was on holiday in Gambia and made a phonecall on my mobile to another mobile in the UK.

Is there anyway i can get the long's and lat's from the call i made?

I would like to see on google earth exactly where i was in the town.

Thanks

Humm the problem you'll have is your local UK proivder probably won't have access to the Gambian providers cell info / location. If you remember the provider in Gambia, that may help, when contacting your local provider, but to be honest, it'll either cost you, or you'll be told it's not possible.

cheers

Mark

 

[Marks adventure]

All sounds very suspect... most of us would just look outside at the road name

Perhaps you should have a look at Gambia... Road names... Dusty Tracks with no names!!!

 

[Cole]

Is there anyway i can get the long's and lat's from the call i made?

I would like to see on google earth exactly where i was in the town.

As far as I know, mobile phone tracking only shows what mobile base station you used. The base station has no way to tell what direction you were from it, nor the distance between you and that base station.

can anyone confirm this

 

[unhinged]

The mobile constantly communicates with cells near to it in order to get adequate reception and allow handover of the mobile call from one cell to another. If the network knows the signal strengths from the mobile to three known cell locations it can roughly work out where the mobile is located.

 

[Cole]

Is that information recorded ? Or is only the cell/cells used for the call recorded.

 

[markie_wales]

Is that information recorded ? Or is only the cell/cells used for the call recorded.

In Gambia? Using all my inheritied sterotypes of Africa, I doubt they'd hold that sort of info (if at all) for more than a day. Could you imagine the volume of data that would have to be recorded for someone travelling along a road for 15 miles and passing through X cells? Then multiply that by the 500,000 calls made per day? Hummm maybe I should buy some EMC shares!

cheers

Mark

 

[unhinged]

I don't really know. I'd expect there to be a record of the cells that a mobile's used but not necessarily a triangulated position or continuous signal strengths whilst the mobile was in the vacinity of a cell. They're planning (or are they doing it now?) targetted advertising so that as you walk past Dixons you get a text spamming you about offers etc. I'd imagine they'd record location information then for auditing purposes when collecting advertising revenue.

 

[ozzy]

sounds like a job for the C I A

 

[ST4S]

Not sure about doing it after the event, or in foreign countries. It's definitely something that can be done in the right circumstances because I used to work for a company that had mobile units around the uk and we subscribed to a service that enabled us to track vehicle movements via the mobile phone and display them on a real time map. Not much use in your situation I know, but it shows it can be done.

 

[Cole]

Not sure about doing it after the event, or in foreign countries. It's definitely something that can be done in the right circumstances because I used to work for a company that had mobile units around the uk and we subscribed to a service that enabled us to track vehicle movements via the mobile phone and display them on a real time map. Not much use in your situation I know, but it shows it can be done.

Was the firm called MI5?