zamojski / TowerCollector

The OpenCellID and MLS contributor's app.
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Explain each CSV field in the Information preference #222

Closed jidanni closed 1 week ago

jidanni commented 5 months ago

There are many fields in the CSV file exported. But it's hard to know what they are about. For instance the heading field. Say if this is the heading of the cell phone in other words where the cell phone was compared to where it was one second ago. Or perhaps this means the angle the cell phone was pointed. Or maybe it means the direction to the tower signal from the cell phone, etc. Then there's all those RSSI abbreviations etc.

Therefore somewhere in the Preferences, have a list available.

zamojski commented 1 week ago

I don't see heading field there, however there's a bearing field which comes from GPS meaning the direction in which the device is moving. The phone heading doesn't matter here.

All the magic RSSI variants come from different technologies and all are defined in 3GPP standards, which at least for me are too overwhelming to understand.