[WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Brian Webster
I have been thinking that I should do another update to the WISP National Map. I would really love to improve the quality of the coverage area this time. The thought is to have each WISP who participated in their respective state broadband mapping initiative request a copy of the shape file for

Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Charles N Wyble
Brian, I think this is a wonderful idea. :) On 10/11/2010 07:04 AM, Brian Webster wrote: I have been thinking that I should do another update to the WISP National Map. I would really love to improve the quality of the coverage area this time. The thought is to have each WISP who

Re: [WISPA] port 5060 relaying attack?

2010-10-11 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
Ok I was just looking at my firewall rules. I have a rule that was instead of “dropping” blacklisted IP’s it was “tarpitting” them. Do you think the tarpit may have been the problem? I changed that rule to drop instead and havn’t had the problem since. Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126

Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Brian Webster
And I wonder what everyone would think about the idea of identifying which WISP is serving the area this time? With all the requests Matt Larson sends out from the WISP Directory, they come directly from the national map. We don't identify who serves the area currently and thus the consumer

Re: [WISPA] port 5060 relaying attack?

2010-10-11 Thread Josh Luthman
...delays incoming connections for as long as possible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_%28networking%29 Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Kurt Fankhauser k...@wavelinc.com wrote: Ok I was

Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Mike Hammett
Anonymity only hurts us (as WISPs and WISPA as a whole). - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 10/11/2010 9:37 AM, Brian Webster wrote: And I wonder what everyone would think about the idea of identifying which WISP is serving the area this time? With

Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Randy Cosby
Brian, Any tips on turning radiomobile coverage overlays into shape files? I've been playing with some open source tools and have made a little progress, but haven't had time to refine the technique yet. I think if ISPs could produce shape files more easily, the response would be much

Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Brian Webster
The problem with the Radio Mobile plots is that they are just image overlays. Shape files are referred to as vector files similar to what Autocad files are. What that means is that the file is a series of instructions of points and instruction on how to connect them to create lines which render at

Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Kristian Hoffmann
We use Splat! to generate raster maps of our coverage. With the new Splat! HD version, and the SRTM1 data, you can produce 30m accurate plots. We then use perl bindings for the GDAL/OGR libraries to convert them into GeoTIFFs (geo-located raster files). The magic trick is that the library has a

Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Martha Huizenga
sounds great to me. What do we need to send you? Martha Huizenga DC Access, LLC http://www.dcaccess.net 202-546-5898 */Friendly, Local, Affordable, Internet!/**/ Connecting the Capitol Hill Community Join us on Facebook

Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Randy Cosby
Thanks Brian, Kristian, I'll have to check out Splat! some time soon. My process involved converting the Radiomobile overlay into a raster (svg) in Inkscape, then convert that to KML. I can't remember off the top of my head how I did it, but I was able to preserve the gps coordinates of

Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Kristian Hoffmann
ogr2ogr can convert KML to Shapfile (and many other formats). Here's a list of all the supported formats... http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html The command line is something like... ogr2ogr -f ESRI Shapefile output.shp input.kml This is the python wrapper for the polygonize

Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Randy Cosby
Interesting. So if the kml file includes a .png shape, it will convert that to vector first, then into shp? Randy On 10/11/2010 10:26 AM, Kristian Hoffmann wrote: ogr2ogr can convert KML to Shapfile (and many other formats). Here's a list of all the supported formats...

Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Brian Webster
Go ahead and share. Anything to help this industry stand up and be counted is good in my book. Brian -Original Message- From: Kristian Hoffmann [mailto:kh...@fire2wire.com] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 11:41 AM To: bwebs...@wirelessmapping.com; WISPA General List Cc: 'Randy Cosby'

Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Brian Webster
If you can ask your broadband mapping authority to send you the shape file package they created and/or used to show your network coverage I will use that data directly. Brian From: Martha Huizenga [mailto:mar...@dcaccess.net] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 11:51 AM To:

Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Brian Webster
Most of the kml to shape file tools will only work on files that are polygons. The image overlays won't necessarily work. Brian -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Randy Cosby Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 12:09 PM To:

Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Randy Cosby
Right.. I've already converted the overlay to vector before feeding it into the kml to shp. I said the Radiomobile overlay into a raster (svg) in Inkscape ... I should have said the Radiomobile overlay into a _vector_ (svg) in Inkscape On 10/11/2010 10:39 AM, Brian Webster wrote: Most of

Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Tom DeReggi
For those that have that, I'd agree that would be easiest, and have the added benefit that the updated WISP map would match State Maps. But... We cant assume for majority of members that they participated with their States and disclosed their data, nor that the State's shape files are

Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Kevin Sullivan
Radiomobile can output a .kml file directly. That's what we sent to the Oregon broadband mapping program -- it opens directly in Google earth, and if we were to have a overview of total WISP coverage, a series of .kml files in Google Earth might not be a bad way to go. Kevin - Original

Re: [WISPA] port 5060 relaying attack?

2010-10-11 Thread RickG
Was hoping you'd chime in Josh :) On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.comwrote: ...delays incoming connections for as long as possible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_%28networking%29 Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100

Re: [WISPA] port 5060 relaying attack?

2010-10-11 Thread Josh Luthman
I am being sneaky sneaky sir =) You can probably just drop all 5060/tcp input forever as I seriously doubt your Mikrotik is a SIP gateway. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:03 PM, RickG rgunder...@gmail.com

Re: [WISPA] port 5060 relaying attack?

2010-10-11 Thread RickG
Amen on both counts :) On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.comwrote: I am being sneaky sneaky sir =) You can probably just drop all 5060/tcp input forever as I seriously doubt your Mikrotik is a SIP gateway. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct:

Re: [WISPA] Trango Apex V1.3.0 Stable Yet?

2010-10-11 Thread Scott Carullo
What issues? I've been running it on two links for some time now and have noticed anything yet. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough? Scott Carullo Technical Operations 877-804-3001 x102 From: can...@believewireless.net p...@believewireless.net Sent:

Re: [WISPA] port 5060 relaying attack?

2010-10-11 Thread Kurt Fankhauser
For now what I’ve done is I blocked input port 5060 and on forward if anyone try’s to access port 5060 it adds them to a Blacklist for blocked IPs. Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405 _ From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org