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

2010-10-12 Thread Kevin Sullivan
mation 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? Brian, I think this is a wonderful i

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

2010-10-11 Thread Kevin Sullivan
ginal 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 pl

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

2010-10-11 Thread Tom DeReggi
From: Brian Webster To: 'Martha Huizenga' ; 'WISPA General List' Cc: 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

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

2010-10-11 Thread Randy Cosby
er 11, 2010 12:09 PM 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.

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

2010-10-11 Thread Brian Webster
PM 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 remem

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, In

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

2010-10-11 Thread Brian Webster
Cosby' 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 Geo

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... > > http://www.g

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 functionalit

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 the

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

2010-10-11 Thread Martha Huizenga
be a big change and I don't want 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: [W

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

2010-10-11 Thread Kristian Hoffmann
rom: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 coverage o

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

2010-10-11 Thread Brian Webster
oogle 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 radiom

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 grea

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

2010-10-11 Thread Mike Hammett
; 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 that I should do another update to the WISP National Map. I would really love to improve the quality o

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

2010-10-11 Thread Brian Webster
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, Brian Webster wrote: I hav

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 participa

[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 the