[TZGISUG] Cell Tower Placement

[Luca Panzeri]

Thank you very much.Very appreciated.
Luca

2015-11-13 3:08 GMT+03:00 Jeffrey Dickinson via TZGISUG <
tzgisug at lists.habari.co.tz>:

> 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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