Virtual Line-of-Sight

[Jon Armani]

It came up in the last meeting how deficient Google Maps is for estimating line-of-sight at sites before doing that estimation in person. I just found that Seattle Community Network has a nice set of tools for this purpose: https://docs.seattlecommunitynetwork.org/infrastructure/software.html#site-planning

tl;dr - Google Earth, Ubiquiti Line of Sight, and oddly a set of Facebook tools

[Sam Churchill]

Here's a list of Air Force Early Warning Radar Stations in Oregon. They're generally high up. Many are closed. I figure they might be good prospects for drone links, with direct RF, Infrared and optical connections.

https://www.facebook.com/sam.churchill/posts/pfbid024CC5BG9N3RGaE7T4i7ywvTcwaBheCE5ae5RyEX9VNVEJnN4LVdk6Hzyj3dLA6BBJl

[Russell Senior]

I tried the ubiquiti tool and it looks like Big Pink (the US Bank
Building) is smack in the way between Street Roots and the Pittock
Building.

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Russell Senior
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On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 3:18 PM Jon Armani <j...@armani.io> wrote:
>
> It came up in the last meeting how deficient Google Maps is for estimating line-of-sight at sites before doing that estimation in person. I just found that Seattle Community Network has a nice set of tools for this purpose: https://docs.seattlecommunitynetwork.org/infrastructure/software.html#site-planning
>
> tl;dr - Google Earth, Ubiquiti Line of Sight, and oddly a set of Facebook tools
>

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