<div dir="ltr">Thank you very much.Very appreciated.<div>Luca</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-11-13 3:08 GMT+03:00 Jeffrey Dickinson via TZGISUG <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tzgisug@lists.habari.co.tz" target="_blank">tzgisug@lists.habari.co.tz</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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...<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>-Jeff</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Thad Kerosky via TZGISUG <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tzgisug@lists.habari.co.tz" target="_blank">tzgisug@lists.habari.co.tz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px">Hi Jeffrey & Luca,</span><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px">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: </div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.fspmaps.com/#/map@-3.549059,36.329041,9(dark,tanzania_cicos_2013),Tanzania?zoom-extent=open" target="_blank">http://www.fspmaps.com/#/map@-3.549059,36.329041,9(dark,tanzania_cicos_2013),Tanzania?zoom-extent=open</a><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px">I suspect the source data is scraped from the tiles on the GSMA <font color="#1155cc"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:16px;white-space:nowrap"><u><a href="http://maps.mobileworldlive.com/" target="_blank">http://maps.mobileworldlive.com/</a></u></span></font><font color="#006621"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:16px;white-space:nowrap"> </span></font>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.</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px">Best,</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px">Thad Kerosky</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px"><br></div></span><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px">(Admins, please discard the other two messages that got stuck in admin moderation until I fixed my email in the listserv)</div><span><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px">Software Developer</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px">Development Gateway </div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.developmentgateway.org/" target="_blank">www.developmentgateway.org</a></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px">Washington, DC.</div></span><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px">@thadk</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Thad Kerosky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thadknull@gmail.com" target="_blank">thadknull@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span><span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hi Jeffrey & Luca,</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">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: </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.fspmaps.com/#/map@-3.549059,36.329041,9(dark,tanzania_cicos_2013),Tanzania?zoom-extent=open" target="_blank">http://www.fspmaps.com/#/map@-3.549059,36.329041,9(dark,tanzania_cicos_2013),Tanzania?zoom-extent=open</a><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I suspect the source data is scraped from the tiles on the GSMA <font color="#1155cc"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:16px;white-space:nowrap"><u><a href="http://maps.mobileworldlive.com/" target="_blank">http://maps.mobileworldlive.com/</a></u></span></font><font color="#006621"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:16px;white-space:nowrap"> </span></font>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.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Best,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Thad Kerosky</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Software Developer</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Development Gateway </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.developmentgateway.org/" target="_blank">www.developmentgateway.org</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Washington, DC.</div></span></span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div><img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 6:58 AM, Mike Shand via TZGISUG <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tzgisug@lists.habari.co.tz" target="_blank">tzgisug@lists.habari.co.tz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Companies are certainly collecting the data of their mast locations as can be seen from this map:<br>
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