Contributing

Contribute measurements

Help improve the dataset by submitting cell observations.

Want to collect with your phone? See Why contribute? for how to get started with Tower Collector.

Choose an upload method

Use your own API key so submissions can be attributed to your account.

Prepare your data

Read the measurement fields and validation rules. Network technologies use different identifiers, ranges and optional fields.

For file uploads, follow the endpoint's exact field names and request example. Downloaded cell-tower CSV files and measurement-upload CSV files serve different purposes; do not assume they share a schema.

After uploading

We parse and filter measurements, update measurement records, and update cell positions. These stages are queued separately, so an accepted upload does not guarantee an immediately updated lookup result.

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