HowTo: Retrieve GSM cell coordinates

asked 2014-02-06 03:38:10 +0200

marsch
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updated 2014-02-06 10:44:05 +0200

foss4ever
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I've been hacking some code together to retrieve geodata from a given GSM cell. In case anybody is looking for similar stuff, here you go:

#!/bin/sh

# Retrieve cell ID code via DBUS
# Idea from http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=72419

KEY="dxxxxxxx6-d7cb-42e2-a1f3-253axxxxxx9c"
TMP=`/bin/mktemp`
/bin/dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal --type=method_call --dest=org.ofono /ril_0 org.ofono.NetworkRegistration.GetProperties > $TMP

for INFO in LocationAreaCode CellId MobileCountryCode MobileNetworkCode; do
   eval $INFO=`/bin/grep $INFO $TMP | /bin/awk -F ' [^0-9]+' '{print $2 $3}' | /bin/awk '{print $NF}'`
done

echo "Cell ID codes"
echo "  MCC: $MobileCountryCode"
echo "  MNC: $MobileNetworkCode"
echo "  LAC: $LocationAreaCode"
echo "  CELL:$CellId"

URL="http://www.opencellid.org/cell/get?key=$KEY&mnc=$MobileNetworkCode&mcc=$MobileCountryCode&lac=$LocationAreaCode&cellid=$CellId"
/usr/bin/curl -o $TMP $URL 1>/dev/null 2>&1

echo ""
if /bin/grep fail $TMP >/dev/null; then
  echo "Coordinates could not be retrieved."
else
  LAT=`/bin/grep lat $TMP | /bin/awk -F '"' '{print  $2}'` 
  LON=`/bin/grep lon $TMP | /bin/awk -F '"' '{print  $4}'` 
  echo "Geo coordinates"
  echo "  LAT: $LAT"
  echo "  LON: $LON"
fi

/bin/rm -f $TMP