The post “Interesting geotags” points out a few cameraphone-specific geotags recently found in use on flickr. The example at http://www.flickr.com/photos/koolwaaij/73566875/ is tagged with:
celltagged cell:signal=63 cell:mcc=204 cell:mnc=815 cell:cellid=47889 cell:lac=4496
If you have an S60 phone, you can grab these values with a simple Python for S60 script that uses the Location and Sysinfo modules. The most basic script, which simply dumps the value to the console, looks something like this:
import location
import sysinfo
mcc, mnc, lac, cid = location.gsm_location()
print u"celltagged"
print u"cell:mcc=%s" % (mcc)
print u"cell:mnc=%s" % (mnc)
print u"cell:lac=%s" % (lac)
print u"cell:cellid=%s" % (cid)
print u"cell:signal=%s" % (sysinfo.signal())
And if you’re curious, this post was made from:
celltagged cell:mcc=244 cell:mnc=5 cell:lac=9000 cell:cellid=9953 cell:signal=7
(Via geobloggers.)