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Re:Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms by gesman on Friday May 01, 2020 @07:40PM (#23047636)
It plots cell towers in the middle of my residential neighborhood where i absolutely sure there aren't any
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Re:Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms by jcims on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:42AM (#23049574)
https://community.opencellid.org/t/range-of-a-tower/370/2

>The range field tells you the approximate area within which the cell could be, in metres. This is effectively an estimate of how accurate the location is.

There's one marked in the middle of a corn field near me with a range of 48,000m. ?

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Re:Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms by leeoniya on Friday May 01, 2020 @07:43PM (#23047656)
maybe they're Stingrays ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker

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Re:Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms by gesman on Saturday May 02, 2020 @02:23AM (#23049768)
Maybe. However cellmapper.net shows few cell towers where they actually exists and this map doesn't show them.

Credibility?

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