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Interesting.

CellMapper, at least, is not even a little bit open source. It doesn't even have an API.

This leads me to wonder what other details that FA provides which might have been fabricated from thin air.

If someone is focusing on extracting data for a small area, they can manually browse the CellMapper data. An API isn’t required for that—it’s a matter of accessing and analyzing what’s already available through the platform.

Does that make it "open source"?

Kinda, yeah. It's open source in the "intelligence" sense of the phrase because it's openly available information (like OSINT), but it's not freely usable.

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