WIND Mobile Tower Map

[TouchMyBox]

Either Wind put up or is planning to put a BUNCH of new towers according to bprintz New Towers map. (Unless they are duplicates)

From what I can confirm of the "new" towers in my area, it's bullshoot, those have been around forever.

[bprintz]

Need to do some updates on my scripts they are pretty rudimentary currently, the ones that were showing earlier for Today were duplicates (and have been cleaned up). Everything is currently automated as how those get added. Since things are automatically updated so often, it runs into some issues currently if the database(SD/TAFL) is unavailable when I look for new towers... which is what happened today.

I'm going to look at adding some more 'smarts' to the scripts to prevent things like this from happening, but that will take some time. In the meantime if you notice 100+ sites being added in a day, it's likely related to this and a bug!

[icemasta]

Need to do some updates on my scripts they are pretty rudimentary currently, the ones that were showing earlier for Today were duplicates (and have been cleaned up). Everything is currently automated as how those get added. Since things are automatically updated so often, it runs into some issues currently if the database(SD/TAFL) is unavailable when I look for new towers... which is what happened today.

I'm going to look at adding some more 'smarts' to the scripts to prevent things like this from happening, but that will take some time. In the meantime if you notice 100+ sites being added in a day, it's likely related to this and a bug!

Bprintz, looks like TAFL messed up the New Towers section.

[pjw918]

Bprintz, looks like TAFL messed up the New Towers section.

How does TAFL mess up the New Towers?

@bprintz, what do the dates represent? I've been assuming it's the day your SD script picked up the new listiing?

[icemasta]

How does TAFL mess up the New Towers?

@bprintz, what do the dates represent? I've been assuming it's the day your SD script picked up the new listiing?

From what I remember, sometimes TAFL may use slightly different data for the same location as SD and since it's an automated script it sometimes will assume the new data is new and not a duplicate.

[billybobmac]

Just noticed that they're beginning to hire for Kingston!

https://globalive.tms.hrdepartment.c...RIO?lcid=en-US

[bprintz]

The dates on my site represent the day that the script first saw a tower at that exact lat/long in the database. If there was another entry 1 second (lat/long) off, it will show as a new tower which is why we sometimes see duplicates. The script automatically runs every hour polling SD/TAFL for data and compares things for new sites. There's been another issue where it's been reporting essentially everything as a new tower occasionally which needs to get ironed out. As I mentioned if you see a list for new towers and it shows 100+ towers for a day, this is a bug!

[Positive Climb]

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Can somebody tell me if there are any more new sites in Winnipeg? Thanks

[canadiancow]

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Can somebody tell me if there are any more new sites in Winnipeg? Thanks

Maps not working for you?

[Positive Climb]

Maps not working for you?

The map listed here http://crownhosting.net/maps/wind.php shows 2 Winnipeg towers, however when I search Spectrum Direct nothing shows.

[canadiancow]

The map listed here http://crownhosting.net/maps/wind.php shows 2 Winnipeg towers, however when I search Spectrum Direct nothing shows.

Don't get me started on how much I love pulling data from SD

All the maps show 2 in Winnipeg, so you can be pretty sure that's all we have from SD so far

[andy_wang8844]

they also have towers in victoria?

[canadiancow]

Peterborough (389 murray st.) on

[belatucadros]

Did you ever filter out based on altitude?

There's a second line of what looks like airplane data

http://www.coveragemapper.com/windma...m=12&netType=0

You can (sort of) follow it back. It's weird, it goes over the airport in waterloo as well. I tracked it back as far as guelph before hitting a dead end. (Weirdly enough it stops at a legit road, could be coincidence)

Then outside guelph airport there's this strange loop:
http://www.coveragemapper.com/windma...m=13&netType=0

Appears aerial too.

[canadiancow]

Did you ever filter out based on altitude?

There's a second line of what looks like airplane data

http://www.coveragemapper.com/windma...m=12&netType=0

You can (sort of) follow it back. It's weird, it goes over the airport in waterloo as well. I tracked it back as far as guelph before hitting a dead end. (Weirdly enough it stops at a legit road, could be coincidence)

Then outside guelph airport there's this strange loop:
http://www.coveragemapper.com/windma...m=13&netType=0

Appears aerial too.

That's not really tower-related, but yes, I've looked into this issue. The problem with altitude is that you need a ground reference. And I can't find any elevation databases that are useful. Sure, at some places, that aircraft is flying at 150km/h 500feet above the ground, but there are others where the data says it's below ground level.