Large green patches wouldn't work here. From May - September, everything in 300 miles is green. ;-)
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Robert West" <robert.w...@just-micro.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 5:03 PM To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Link Planning Software > I was holding this chunk of Organite and praying for such a thing and now > here it is. > > Spooky. > > Get ready for the list, Shaddi. > > For one, this browser based software should not depend on the internet, > yes? > The term browser speaks internet to me. If I'm out in the field trying to > figure out a link I obviously don't have internet there. Not that I see > myself out in the middle of a corn field with my laptop trying to figure > it > out but hey, who knows. > > The basics of course is terrain and elevation but I'd like to see how a > link > over water is taken into account rolled into the thing. > > I also have to guess at trees. If I'm only able to get 70 feet or so up > and > the trees around here are also around 70 feet, it might say yes but the > trees would say no. Could it possibly have a variable where you could set > an average height for stands of trees? Where I am at, Southern Ohio, all > the patches of trees are pretty much a single average height. If the > software could distinguish a large green patch as trees and you tell the > software that the average height is whatever, it could possibly add that > height to the land elevation. Would be good to have a database of various > antennas and radios to pull from as well. > > Hey! IDEA! A new game, Wireless Internet Tycoon!!! What do ya think? > I've kinda ran off the rails here, sorry..... > > > You want a wish list? Grab some paper, pal. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Shaddi Hasan > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 5:37 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Link Planning Software > > Howdy WISPA! > > Just joined today but wanted to chime in -- some students here at UNC > Chapel > Hill are working on a browser-based link planning tool as a semester > project. It will be released as open-source at the end of the semester, so > we'd like it to be useful not only for our projects but for the community > at > large. While primarily geared towards community wireless projects, it'd be > great if it could be useful for the professional WISP community. So, if > you > have any feedback on what features you'd like to see in such a tool, > lessons > you all have learned that should be incorporated into its design, or the > concept generally, please contact me. > > To the OP, check back in December and we might have something to offer > you! > > Shaddi > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Robert West > <robert.w...@just-micro.com>wrote: > >> What are you folks using to verify the viability of a link before you >> plan >> the build? I've tried using Radio Mobile but I'll be darned if I can't > get >> that thing to work even with the step by step instructions. I've been >> finding myself just plotting elevations all the way along the link in >> Google >> Earth. Sucks. >> >> Anyone using a good software app that will plot the links and give me the >> easy thumbs up or thumbs down? >> >> Sorry to be a pain with all these questions. It's been too hectic and I >> just don't have the time to sit for 2 days evaluating crap software. I'd >> rather be told what's good by real users. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> "Organite. It's not just for breakfast anymore." >> >> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! 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