Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-30 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
- Original Message - From: jp j...@saucer.midcoast.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Building Heights? Tax assessing data 45 degree square and a tape measure on flat ground. 45 degree square, laser rangefinder, scientific

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-30 Thread D. Ryan Spott
...@saucer.midcoast.com To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Building Heights? Tax assessing data 45 degree square and a tape measure on flat ground. 45 degree square, laser rangefinder, scientific calculator. On Mon, Mar

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-30 Thread jp
Use the profiler on here: http://www.heywhatsthat.com/ The website author made it usable for wireless for us. He'll do custom sites that show only your tower locations too if you want. On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 04:42:27PM -0700, Forbes Mercy wrote: Wouldn't it be cool if when using Google Earth

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-30 Thread Chuck Bartosch
Hey, that's a great tool! Thanks for pointing it out. Chuck On Mar 30, 2010, at 11:07 AM, jp wrote: Use the profiler on here: http://www.heywhatsthat.com/ The website author made it usable for wireless for us. He'll do custom sites that show only your tower locations too if you want.

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-30 Thread Forbes Mercy
Could I get the actual URL on LinkPlanner and WispMon On 3/30/2010 8:07 AM, jp wrote: Use the profiler on here: http://www.heywhatsthat.com/ The website author made it usable for wireless for us. He'll do custom sites that show only your tower locations too if you want. On Mon, Mar 29,

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-30 Thread Josh Luthman
LinkPlanner http://tinyurl.com/ygt43e4 Wispmon http://tinyurl.com/yl427nd Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” --- Winston Churchill On Tue, Mar

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-30 Thread Al Schneider
Shall I send it today? -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Forbes Mercy Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 1:33 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Building Heights? Could I get the actual URL on LinkPlanner

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-30 Thread Forbes Mercy
Oh a smart-ass, huh? lol so where is my start button again? On 3/30/2010 10:36 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: LinkPlanner http://tinyurl.com/ygt43e4 Wispmon http://tinyurl.com/yl427nd Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-30 Thread Josh Luthman
You know I went up until Sunday without having a customer confused between the Start button on Windows and the power button on the machine. I felt like someone hit me with a 2 by 4. Either way, those links will get you to the products in question. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct:

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-30 Thread Mike
Hey, I like that. How did you do that? Mike -Original Message- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:36 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Building Heights? LinkPlanner http

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-30 Thread Josh Luthman
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Building Heights? LinkPlanner http://tinyurl.com/ygt43e4 Wispmon http://tinyurl.com/yl427nd Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-30 Thread Cameron Crum
Wispmon is at http://www.wispmon.com. Will hit you offlist with more. Cameron On 3/30/2010 11:33 AM, Forbes Mercy wrote: Could I get the actual URL on LinkPlanner and WispMon On 3/30/2010 8:07 AM, jp wrote: Use the profiler on here: http://www.heywhatsthat.com/ The website author

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-30 Thread Jason Bailey
WOW!!! what pain this will save..What other things will they come up with before taking over the planet? --- On Tue, 3/30/10, Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com wrote: From: Josh Luthman j...@imaginenetworksllc.com Subject: Re: [WISPA] Building Heights? To: WISPA General List wireless

[WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-29 Thread Charles Hooper
Hello, Does anyone know a reliable source/method of getting building heights? Something like a topographical map that included buildings would be excellent, but I haven't been able to find anything like this. Thanks! Charles

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-29 Thread Matt Liotta
Skyscrapers.com is often useful in major cities. -Matt On Mar 29, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Charles Hooper wrote: Hello, Does anyone know a reliable source/method of getting building heights? Something like a topographical map that included buildings would be excellent, but I haven't been able

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-29 Thread jp
Tax assessing data 45 degree square and a tape measure on flat ground. 45 degree square, laser rangefinder, scientific calculator. On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 02:07:36PM -0400, Charles Hooper wrote: Hello, Does anyone know a reliable source/method of getting building heights? Something like

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-29 Thread Cameron Crum
Not for free. This info is usually pretty expensive for good high res data. That being said, one interesting flaw in the SRTM data is that is contains building canopy within the data. The radar they used bounced off man made structures and make them appear to be part of the terrain. So, in big

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-29 Thread Scott Reed
For those that use this data, I believe the radar also reflects off trees, so the data can be skewed by large forested areas showing as somewhat higher elevation than they truly are. Cameron Crum wrote: Not for free. This info is usually pretty expensive for good high res data. That being

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-29 Thread richard sterne
Would the local building inspectors hold records? Richard WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-29 Thread Jim Patient
Well, it prolly isn't good every place but I just selected 3d buildings on google earth and drug my mouse from the street to top of Met Square in St Louis. It shows the elevation at street level and the top of the building. The difference is the elevation of the building height in this case.

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-29 Thread Forbes Mercy
Wouldn't it be cool if when using Google Earth you could draw a straight line between two points and it would calculate the altitude of each origin point then mark in red any place where altitude is higher than the beginning and end points along the line? For long legs in mixed altitude areas

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-29 Thread ccrum
WispMon does this and gives you freznel zone as well ;) Cameron Wouldn't it be cool if when using Google Earth you could draw a straight line between two points and it would calculate the altitude of each origin point then mark in red any place where altitude is higher than the beginning and

Re: [WISPA] Building Heights?

2010-03-29 Thread Josh Luthman
LinkPlanner does this. Then you can copy it to Google Earth. On 3/29/10, Forbes Mercy forbes.me...@wabroadband.com wrote: Wouldn't it be cool if when using Google Earth you could draw a straight line between two points and it would calculate the altitude of each origin point then mark in red