I am trying to find some apps, websites (or perhaps programming code) that I can use to measure the accuracy of cellular network geolocation, the geolocation which is performed by cellular base station triangulation.
This is for some research I am doing on the accuracy of cellular network triangulation under different urban conditions.
Mobile devices such as smartphones use three main systems for geolocation: (1) satellite geolocation via GPS etc, (2) WiFi geolocation, and (3) cellular network triangulation, with the last one being the least accurate.
Google Maps offers the ability to check geolocation accuracy via the blue circle it draws around your map location (the size of the blue circle representing the uncertainty in geolocation position). By turning off GPS and WiFi geolocation on a mobile device (can be achieved by turn on battery saver mode), you can then use Google Maps to test cellular network triangulation accuracy.
However, I am trying to find a better alternative to Google Maps, because for one thing, the blue circle in Google Maps maxes out at a certain size (of around 500 meters), and does not grow any larger, so you cannot tell you if cellular network triangulation is lost completely (as it will be if the mobile device is in contact with only one cellular base station, meaning triangulation is lost).
Also, no numerical data is provided in Google Maps (the size of the blue circle, which is the uncertainty in position, is not numerically given).
Thus I don’t think Google Maps is a good way of obtaining network triangulation accuracy.
So I am looking for any utilities, apps or perhaps programming code which could be used to measure cellular network triangulation accuracy.
These apps could be Android apps, or an app on a Windows PC or Mac (in the case of a PC or Mac, I would use a USB cellular network dongle for mobile internet access, placing a SIM card in the dongle).
Any suggestions on how I can measure cellular network triangulation accuracy would be gratefully received.
