It is about time. They must have added Google Maps sometime this week. I used it last week and the old deleted Tiger Map links where still there. There is also a link for Microsoft Research Maps Topo maps also.
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FCC Search Now Has Google Maps??
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I just got the Tiger Removal message* They must still be testing, so it's still not in production yet. You must of caught it during the testing, which worked at that time, but it's back to the "placeholder" message...
* http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tigerms_redir.html?lon=-87.848333&lat=41.555833&iwd=750&iht=750&mark=-87.848333,41.555833,bluestar,WLS_CHICAGO_IL&on=water,miscell,counties,places,CITIES,&off=streets,GRID,shorelin&ht=0.5&wid=0.5
* http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tigerms_redir.html?lon=-87.848333&lat=41.555833&iwd=750&iht=750&mark=-87.848333,41.555833,bluestar,WLS_CHICAGO_IL&on=water,miscell,counties,places,CITIES,&off=streets,GRID,shorelin&ht=0.5&wid=0.5
Hopefully Radio-Locator will follow a similar path.
TV had maps and contours as well. I'd love it if the FCC could quart generating AM maps like radio-locator does. R-L stopped generating maps for new content about the time the TIGER map server shut down.
When TIGER shut down I had to in through and change all the coverage map links on my website. It was a PITA.
When TIGER shut down I had to in through and change all the coverage map links on my website. It was a PITA.
The FCC never did AM maps before with Tiger. Radio-Locator does AM maps but things can vary so much with AM reception that you have to consider that when looking at them. The TV maps aren't working right now, but I imagine they will be put on Google as well.
Google maps is certainly nicer than the Tiger maps, but its too bad the FCC doesn't do the terrain coverage maps like TVFool does. I find these really useful and can't find anybody that does them for FM.
Google maps is certainly nicer than the Tiger maps, but its too bad the FCC doesn't do the terrain coverage maps like TVFool does. I find these really useful and can't find anybody that does them for FM.
http://lrcov.crc.ca/main/ Like this?spunker88 said:
BobOnTheJob said:
R-I has maps.google.com for the transmitter site(s); if you're talking about the coverage map being in google maps as well, that might be quite a feat for the server to redraw the map with contours each time the zoom is changed by the user. I'm sure that's coming someday...
If it's on a Google map, then Google's servers handle the overlay. We all know Google could very well have infinite capacity. I always noticed the TIGER maps took a long time to draw. Might as well have the government use the resources of a private company for free rather than use its own resources.
Nick said:
Since the government is ostensibly still collecting mapping information, I'd rather then use government resources that already exist than use a private company's resources, which may get changed or disappear behind a pay wall one day at someone's whim, breaking the links again.
Going from http://www.fcc.gov/searchtools.html to FM, it appears that clicking on Service Contour on Google map for a specific FM station is yielding a Google map with contour(s) to the dBu specified on the station's data page; it is scalable, that is, as zoom is adjusted, so does the contour resize. It also appears to be working for TV stations as well. Not AM patterns, though. Have no idea if that's coming later or not.
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