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beaconDB - a public domain wireless geolocation database

Website: beacondb.net
Source code and issue tracker on Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/beacondb/beacondb
Mastodon: @beacondb@mapstodon.space
Matrix space: #beacondb:libre.net.au

Joel Koen - the main developer and project leader: https://joel.net.au/
Definitely consider donating to support his great work: https://liberapay.com/joelkoen/

How to contribute:

NeoStumbler (collects cellular towers, as well as Wi-Fi networks and Bluetooth beacons)
- Download on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/xyz.malkki.neostumbler.fdroid/
- Source code on GitHub: https://github.com/mjaakko/NeoStumbler
Tower Collector (only collects cellular towers)
- Download on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/info.zamojski.soft.towercollector/
- Source code on GitHub: https://github.com/zamojski/TowerCollector

Other useful tools:

Map: beacondb.net/map
beacondb.derpingu.in
- a constantly updated graph visualizing the contributions of Wi-Fi networks, cellular towers and Bluetooth beacons
- powered by the open source beacondb-graph Python application
- created by @pinguin@toot.teckids.org
beacondb-stats
- a Python tool that collects data from beacondb.net/stats.json and appends it to a CSV file
- also created by @pinguin@toot.teckids.org

Feel free to reach out to me if anything is missing

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From the Statistics page in NeoStumbler:

Wi-Fi networks

Bluetooth beacons

Cell towers

Feel free to also share yours :)

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