At 06:48 AM 30/03/2008, Kyle Gordon wrote:
Jon Stockill wrote:
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Also any objection to a closed wey showing coverage limit, and how should
this be tagged? (would probably need a wey per transmitter frequency).
Coverage would depend a great deal on the equipment used to access the
repeater though.
Jon
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Maybe not a closed way defining coverage, but on the node putting in
power output per band would be useful. Freqs could be listed by band as
well, such as 70cm, 2m, etc A wiki style link to propogation maps would
be useful too. A repeater site may also contain different repeaters
operated by different folks (with different callsigns)
Kyle
Unless the original intent is to actually go out and physically map the real
coverage extent, that sounds promising. With information about antenna config,
ERP etc tagged on the repeater node, it should be possible to generate
theoretical coverage maps based on OSM. Combining terrain data too might make
an interesting project.
At the current state of play, creating wide-ranging closed ways to show
coverage limit would be a bit like mapping flight paths, interesting to some
folks but confusing to others if it passes through their back garden. I
predict that before not too long we'll have the ability to map into, and make
maps from, a core OSM database (i.e. what we have now) and add-on databases,
such as coast lines. I suggest holding off until then. Just my view!
Mike
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