Cellular and Antenna Tower

Owned by Diego Cesa de Meira (Unlicensed)
Sept 05, 2019
2 min read

Description

Cellular / Antenna Tower are cell tower locations of Canadian Wireless providers.
Canadians want faster and more accessible service so they can reliably use their wireless devices to keep in touch with loved ones and stay informed. Businesses, emergency services and air navigation systems also depend on radio communications and wireless services 24-hours-a-day. This requires towers, located in the right places.
All antenna towers have to satisfy Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada's general and technical requirements and comply with Health Canada's Safety Code 6, which imposes strict limits on the radio frequency energy sent out by any antenna tower.

Originator

  1. Industry Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)

Use Cases

  1. As an Aviation Inspector, I like to know where the tower locations are so that it can be compared and validated against the Obstacle data.

Source(s)

Description

Source

Format

Date

Update Frequency

Metadata

Cost

Link

Remarks

Description

Source

Format

Date

Update Frequency

Metadata

Cost

Link

Remarks

Cellular / Antenna Tower

Industry Canada

CSV

Current

N/A

PDF

Free

Spectrum Licences Site Data

Extrude structure height for 3D illustration

Remarks

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Process for EGIS integration

Display Optimization:

  1. Sampled/thinned data (generated using common data sampling technique) are displayed at small and medium scale. With scale transition, original data are displayed at large scale thus improve display performance and reduce cluttering.

CSV File:

  1. CSV can be integrated directly into ArcMap and ArcGIS.

  2. In FME, transform the Lat/Long to point.

  3. Output to KML, SHP or GDB as required

  4. Import into EGIS

Display Optimization:

  1. Sampled/thinned data (generated using data sampling technique) are displayed at small and medium scale. With scale transition, original data are displayed at large scale thus improve display performance.

TC Smart Maps:

  1. Not all GIS applications can consume KML file directly due to its unique data structures such as networklinks, folders, models etc.

  2. Please contact Lawrence Chong, Digital Services Directorate for TC Smart Maps KML dataset and format translation.

  3. TC Smart Maps KML link: \\tc.gc.ca\tcgis\GISData\Google Mashup\Aerodrome\AntennaTower\AntennaTower.kmz

Customization:

  1. Schema transformation: As required

  2. Denormalization: Not required

  3. Value coding: Not required

  4. Attribute renaming: As required to improve readability

  5. Attribute removal: It is highly recommended as some fields are unnecessary, this will also reduce file size and improve performance

  6. Geoenrichment: Feature symbolization and 3D extrusion using structure height is recommended to improve visualization.

  7. Format translation: Not required

  8. Language translation: French version not available

  9. Update frequency: As identified