[HamWAN PSDR] New website and toy

[Cory (NQ1E)]

Tom,

Are the models combined into a single image overlay?  If not, an easy
way to implement this might be turning individual cells or sectors on
and off.  Something like "Show only the coverage for this cell" would
allow someone to see which one is covering their area through
experimentation.  It would even allow us to use the more detailed
heatmaps that would show where the weaker signals might go and not
just show a single color for > -70.

Of course, it might be quite a bit more difficult, but I think the
ideal interface would allow someone to choose a specific point on the
map and get a report of sectors that can reach that location from
different angles and what the estimated signals would be from each one
using various standard antennas at various heights.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Tom Hayward <tom at tomh.us> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:18 AM, Ed Morin <edmorin.jr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Nice job.
>>
>> It would be nice -- someday -- if the "red" coverage shading was actually
>> changed to be color coded for which site is illuminating a given area.  When
>> I see "red" somewhere, I don't know which site is supposedly covering it and
>> where to aim the dish...
>>
>> Some areas are covered by more than one site in which case the colors would
>> overlap, but that's definitely nice to know too...
>
> Ed,
>
> This is on the roadmap, but as far as I know, I'm our only javascript
> developer and I've been busy with other projects this summer (new
> website, Baldi camera, Gold, and Capitol Peak deploys, among other
> things). If you are any good at javascript, you could take a stab at
> it. The source data can all be gleaned by reading the current map.js
> file and once you have the new map code working we can swap it in.
>
> I've found that knowing which site *should* be strongest at a
> particular location is not terribly relevant in the real world. For
> example, the computer models show that Baldi, ETiger, and Gold should
> all be reachable from my house. When I do a sweep with the dish, I see
> beacon packets from ETiger and Gold. Nothing from Baldi. Oh well, what
> matters here is reality, not what the model shows.
>
> Tom
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