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Will Skora posted a discussion

Frontline SMS consultancy in Haiti with HOT (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team)

Background On the Position The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) has been working in Haiti since mid March 2013 with Local Haitian mappers to implement some of the aspects of the USAID-HRI funded Cap Haitian Mapping project CAP103 (CHM) project in Northern Haiti.Through this project, a joint team of HOT and local Haitian mappers will be creating a group of 60 mappers recruited amongst the youths of Cap Haitian and together with them will improve upon the baseline data of localities in the…See More

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Toni Walts Ochen and Will Skora joined FrontlineSMS

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N. Neelley Hicks replied to Laura Walker Hudson's discussion Geolocating SMS

"Have you heard about Forget Me Not Africa? http://www.forgetmenotafrica.com/ I wonder if an app could be developed to translate an SMS with typed location info into GPS coordinates."

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Terence Eden updated their profile

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Terence Eden replied to Laura Walker Hudson's discussion Geolocating SMS

"It depends on the manufacture. Some allow you to see it in a menu, others require more complex means (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_network_monitor). If you can run very basic apps, Symbian phones let you get the cell id using Java…"

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Laura Walker Hudson replied to Laura Walker Hudson's discussion Geolocating SMS

"Interesting. What makes a handset able to share its Cell ID? L"

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Geolocating SMS

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Terence Eden replied to Laura Walker Hudson's discussion Geolocating SMS

"Some phones can show their Cell ID - that's the ID of the cell tower they are connected to. You can use a database like http://opencellid.org/ to get a rough location of the handset."

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Mena Lihavi joined Josh Nesbit's group

Mobile Money

This group is now focused on the use of FrontlineSMS in the field of mobile money. To learn more about our work in this area visit http://credit.frontlinesms.com/See More

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Mena Lihavi commented on Florence Scialom's group Meet-Ups & Regional Networks

"happy to be a member"

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Mena Lihavi joined Florence Scialom's group

Meet-Ups & Regional Networks

We would like to encourage FrontlineSMS users and potential users to meet up with each other and share ideas and experiences on FrontlineSMS use. Please choose to 'add a discussion' to this group in order to suggest meet-ups or connect with people in your country/ region. Please use the name of the country you're based in within the title of discussion. Thanks! \o/ See More

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akira posted a blog post

Sending a message which is not automated

Hello,I want to send and receive a message which is not automated.I have written a php script as follows:The message which they are receiving from sender :mysql_query("INSERT INTO sms1 (sms_text, sender_number, send_dt) VALUES ('$messageText','$senderPhone','$scts')");For responding :$command_response = mysql_query("SELECT price FROM sms2 where sms_text1 = (SELECT sms_text FROM sms1 where sms_text = '$messageText')");It should take the value which they are receiving and based on the value ,it…See More

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dominic amalan and Brian Shaugh joined FrontlineSMS