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addresses usually show the nearest post office
sometimes the nearest post office might be 20 miles from the transmitter site
the nearest post office might not be in the same town or village or
township or borough or county as the licensee
probably the best way to precisely put a transmitter site in the right
municipality is to take the lats and longs from the fcc radio license
and convert to decimal form and then run them thru the geocoders at
https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/geographies/coordinates?form
or at
https://geo.fcc.gov/api/census/#!/area/get_area
this site might be helpful also -
https://gps-coordinates.org/what-county-am-i-in.php#:~:text=What
county am I in tool can look,both the county and maps will be updated.
- maybe not
however - we have seen fcc data that has the radio located in the
wrong location - its rare but it probably does happen once in a while
- which means that the lats and longs will be wrong - and then the
geocoders will give the municipality info for the wrong location
if the geocoders give bad info on their own at times - then we have a
2nd source of error - and come to think of it - how do they ever keep
those geocoders up to date with citys changing their boundarys every
other tuesday or whatever - on the east coast this should be a much
smaller problem - city boundaries never change on the east coast - but
they do on the west coast and in the heartland