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[Mattias <mattias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Does someone know if there is already software that makes you get a 
faster location fix using cell tower information? I noticed that a-gps 
works quite well in the city area but not in the country side.  There 
are already a few open source projects (for android) that do this, but I 
am wondering if it is or there are plans to integrate this in ubuntu 
touch. There are open source databases with an api like 
http://opencellid.org and https://location.services.mozilla.com/. For 
android there is UnifiedNlp and with a backend: 
https://github.com/n76/Local-GSM-Backend. Would be great to have 
something like that for Ubuntu. But I am not sure how difficult it is to 
integrate this with the location-service dbus. Love to hear your 
opinions on this.

Greetings,

Mattias