It is backwards. When we moved around 15 years ago we couldn’t get phone service because no one could give us our E911 address. Apparently the only person in the county that could tell us what our address was went on a two month long vacation.
That should tell you the level of professionalism we’re dealing with here. From: Mike Hammett Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 10:16 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 477 tract/block info You're referring to geolocating someone? You can likely thank your local counties for having backwards addressing systems if they have an addressing system at all. I don't know how anything but WISPMon does it, but you punch in the address, but then can manually relocate the location. You'd need to do that for tracking your customers in pretty much any other fashion. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Glen Waldrop" <gwl...@cngwireless.net> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 10:10:41 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 477 tract/block info I know this wasn’t directed at me, but the USGS data given to Google, Yahoo, etc, is wrong for a huge portion of my coverage area if not all of it. I’m not sure if that is the case elsewhere, but in west central Alabama using GPS or Google maps is a joke. I visually find the home on Google maps and then look at the link on Terrain Nav Pro. From: Mike Hammett Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 6:51 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 477 tract/block info Your billing system doesn't know where all of your towers are, what they are, etc.? It doesn't have customer qualification capabilities? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Sean Heskett" <af...@zirkel.us> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 12:27:50 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 477 tract/block info Why would you use your billing system to report your coverage area to the FCC? Surely you don't have customers at every possible location that you can provide service to?!?! We use towercoverage.com because it reports all the locations that we can provide service to. 2 cents -Sean On Thursday, February 26, 2015, Philip Rankin <wireless...@gmail.com> wrote: The hardest part for the Fixed Broadband Deployment portion of the filing is understanding what the FCC wants and then manipulating the data to get it into the format the Commission requires after you find where to find the Census information. (The Census information by state is all on http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/census-blocks-state) You just have to massage it to make it fit. I use Platypus and Tucows has a really nice easy button push to generate the Fixed Broadband Subscription information. The subscription can be done manually if you can find the census maps. On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Glen Waldrop <gwl...@cngwireless.net> wrote: http://data.fcc.gov/api/block/find?latitude=32.515986&longitude=87.834804&showall=true Still get an error, xml error rather than 404 this time. Why can't I figure this crap out? Epically frustrating. ----- Original Message ----- From: Josh Luthman To: af@afmug.com Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 477 tract/block info Long and lat should be decimal for one Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Feb 26, 2015 11:12 AM, "Glen Waldrop" <gwl...@cngwireless.net> wrote: What am I doing wrong? http://data.fcc.gov/api/block/2010/find?latitude=32%C2%B030%2757.55%22N&longitude=87%C2%B050%275.30%22W&showall=true ----- Original Message ----- From: Josh Luthman To: af@afmug.com Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 11:05 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 477 tract/block info Use the FCC API. You send coordinates and get tracts. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Feb 26, 2015 11:03 AM, "Glen Waldrop" <gwl...@cngwireless.net> wrote: I've been spinning my wheels for days now, 477 help line is typical government/Microsoft answer, technically correct, practically useless. How do I get the block/tract info? I've got maps, I've got programs, been through the 477 paperwork of the past, none of the numbers I get add up to 15 digits. Getting a little irritated at this point. Thanks guys. -- Philip J. Rankin Wireless Telecommunications Services PO Box 24 Pittsburg, KS 66762
