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Thanks again. We'll look into the issue with lat/lng co-ords and see what we can dig up. You are right about there being no official android APIs for LTE signal/towers but we have fished up some of the unofficial methods. We should mark clearly if a signal is CDMA or LTE and store it separately Initially it wasn't clear which Android was reporting but as it transgressed we realized it was CDMA and so were aware of that in our log data. However, we were guilty of thinking about it from our perspective rather than as a tool for users to log and export their own data so we need to rectify that asap. There is also an ongoing issues with the standard GSM/CDMA signal strength on a lot of the flagship Galaxy devices which you are all probably aware of. We've lobbied hard with contacts at Google/Samsung to fix but its taking time. We would appreciate any interested parties to weigh in here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18336 Let us know if there is any more feedback. Brendan

boomerbubba - thanks for the detailed comments. Let me address them one by one: 1) I understand your frustration with this. We're working on a series of accuracy improvements as we speak that will utilize a lot more accumulated information to improve the accuracy. There are a lot of challenges with this data and its a work in progress but we're working towards a longer term goal and I think its worth it. We are looking at better ways of communicating this to users, one of which is a confidence rating which takes into account the amount of data we have on a given tower and a series of different parameters. 2) Can you clarify what is meant by "lat/lon coordinates are not current"? You mean that the location records simply relate to older locations rather than the current? If so, would like to look into this in detail. For your other comments we are very interested in getting all radio information available. As we understand it there are some difficulties though and not all handsets provide access to LTE signal strength and LTE tower information. Are you getting different results? We've found methods available on some devices but its not consistent across handsets and our users are on a lot of different models. Please keep the comments coming!

Founder of OpenSignalMaps here, Not sure if you have seen our app at all, but we are big fans of your site. We'd be very interested to hear if you find our app useful for tracking the 4G roll out or if not - what could we do to make it better? We're open to any constructive criticism at all & are constantly working to refine both the app and the information on the website. We're currently working on an overhaul of our android application which we are pretty excited about - should be out by the end of October. Brendan