So one of the sources listed is <a href="http://opencellid.de/" rel="nofollow">http://opencellid.de/</a> and there are similar services for the other countries tracking mobile phones.<p>Can anyone familiar with this explain how this type of service is possible?<p>From my limited understanding, it seems like these services all track / utilize cell phone base stations, which I understand to essentially be the device that connects you to the network. But how do they identify the positions of all of the mobile devices utilizing each station? Is this something that is openly broadcasted by the base stations?
It appears to be broken rather than "amazing" for me in 3 different browsers on 2 OSs.<p>"click on the map or on a blue symbol ..."<p>Clicking on the map does nothing and there are no blue symbols shown.
Works fine on Windows 8.1 with Chrome 35.<p>By far the most interesting thing is the overlay of map with tweets. I'm using a cinema display, so can't say I have problems reading small type. Although the color scheme looks very Blade Runner, it makes overlaying only a few options difficult to grok. Scrolling is slow.<p>Still impressed this was rolled out for a video game. Have there been any other presentations like this in the past?
300% CPU Usage...<p>model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4702MQ CPU @ 2.20GHz<p>Interesting data aggregation, but impossible to use without a supercomputer.
Splash screen, loading screen, Adobe Flash, microscopic typefaces. Feel like I went through a time warp to 2001.<p>Also does not work at all on Chrome for Mac.
It looks amazing but getting data from a twitter mainstream with geolocalized tweets as other social data as well is not difficult to implement. In my opinion the key is how to create that map from scratch.