[TZGISUG] Cell Tower Placement

[Jeffrey Dickinson]

I think I can try to extract it with just a bit of work from the the Gates
website. I tried looking at OpenSignal also. They have tower locations on
there with lat/lon but I don't know the source of these data; the related
app is kind of a crowdsourcing thing for mapping cell coverage. It seems to
me there should be way more towers though than OpenSignal has...

Although there are some ways to get this data "second-hand" I think I will
still try to pursue this directly with someone from the telecom cos since
they must have access to this if they are servicing these sites actively
etc. Any help/advice/contacts on that front are appreciated.

-Jeff

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Thad Kerosky via TZGISUG <
tzgisug at lists.habari.co.tz> wrote:

> Hi Jeffrey & Luca,
>
> This does not break it down by operator but I noticed that
> SpatialDev/Gates Fdn added a contextual layer to FSPmaps Tanzania for cell
> coverage:
>
> http://www.fspmaps.com/#/map@-3.549059,36.329041,9(dark,tanzania_cicos_2013),Tanzania?zoom-extent=open
>
> I suspect the source data is scraped from the tiles on the GSMA *http://maps.mobileworldlive.com/
> <http://maps.mobileworldlive.com/>* portal which does have some breakdown
> but is a bit challenging to turn into geodata without some advanced tile
> work. It may be licensable from the source cited on that page.
>
> Best,
> Thad Kerosky
>
> (Admins, please discard the other two messages that got stuck in admin
> moderation until I fixed my email in the listserv)
>
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>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Thad Kerosky <thadknull at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jeffrey & Luca,
>>
>> This does not break it down by operator but I noticed that
>> SpatialDev/Gates Fdn added a contextual layer to FSPmaps Tanzania for cell
>> coverage:
>>
>> http://www.fspmaps.com/#/map@-3.549059,36.329041,9(dark,tanzania_cicos_2013),Tanzania?zoom-extent=open
>>
>> I suspect the source data is scraped from the tiles on the GSMA *http://maps.mobileworldlive.com/
>> <http://maps.mobileworldlive.com/>* portal which does have some
>> breakdown but is a bit challenging to turn into geodata without some
>> advanced tile work. It may be licensable from the source cited on that page.
>>
>> Best,
>> Thad Kerosky
>>
>> Software Developer
>> Development Gateway
>> www.developmentgateway.org
>> Washington, DC.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 6:58 AM, Mike Shand via TZGISUG <
>> tzgisug at lists.habari.co.tz> wrote:
>>
>>> Companies are certainly collecting the data of their mast locations as
>>> can be seen from this map:
>>> https://www.vodacom.co.tz/support/coverage
>>>
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