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

2010-10-12 Thread Kevin Sullivan
From: Charles N Wyble [mailto:char...@knownelement.com] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 10:13 AM To: bwebs...@wirelessmapping.com; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map? Brian, I think this is a wonderful idea. :) On 10/11/2010 07:04 AM

[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] Time to update the National WISP Map?

2010-10-11 Thread Brian Webster
[mailto:char...@knownelement.com] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 10:13 AM To: bwebs...@wirelessmapping.com; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map? Brian, I think this is a wonderful idea. :) On 10/11/2010 07:04 AM, Brian Webster wrote: I have been thinking

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

2010-10-11 Thread Mike Hammett
List *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map? 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

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
Earth. Many did this for the original map. Brian From: Randy Cosby [mailto:dco...@infowest.com] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 10:55 AM To: bwebs...@wirelessmapping.com; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map? Brian, Any tips on turning radiomobile

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

2010-10-11 Thread Kristian Hoffmann
trace the coverage area using Google Earth. Many did this for the original map. Brian From:Randy Cosby [mailto:dco...@infowest.com] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 10:55 AM To: bwebs...@wirelessmapping.com; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National

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

2010-10-11 Thread Martha Huizenga
to violate any trust I had with those who provided information in the past. Brian *From:* Charles N Wyble [mailto:char...@knownelement.com] *Sent:* Monday, October 11, 2010 10:13 AM *To:* bwebs...@wirelessmapping.com; WISPA General List *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map

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

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

2010-10-11 Thread Brian Webster
...@wirelessmapping.com; WISPA General List Cc: motor...@afmug.com; memb...@wispa.org Subject: Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map? 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

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

2010-10-11 Thread Brian Webster
To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map? 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

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

2010-10-11 Thread Randy Cosby
General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map? 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

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

2010-10-11 Thread Tom DeReggi
: memb...@wispa.org ; motor...@afmug.com Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 12:37 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map? 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

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

2010-10-11 Thread Kevin Sullivan
Message - From: Randy Cosby To: bwebs...@wirelessmapping.com ; WISPA General List Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 7:54 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Time to update the National WISP Map? Brian, Any tips on turning radiomobile coverage overlays into shape files? I've been playing