Marc Tuters

Cell carriers don't often make the location of cell towers publicly accessible, which means that customers won't know if they'll get good coverage (it's also a pain from the point of view of "location-based storytelling" since knowing cell location would be a big step towards generating automated location-awareness).

Cell Phone Reception and Tower Search, however, has a "searchable databases of over 117,000 cell phone tower locations registered with the FCC, and over 16,000 cell phone carrier comments submitted voluntarily from real customers using their service all over the U.S."

Some of the towers in L.A. are amusingly disguized to look like Palm trees and stuff. I spotted one on my down Washington the other day. I think I'm gonna start a new set to my Flickr photostream dedicated to cell scavenging.