Where are my transmitters?

prl · Post by **prl** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:20

No, don't post back telling me that information is in my location already!

I have a perl script that can take the information in the Excel version of the ACMA Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations Book and turn it into a Google Earth .kml file showing the transmitter locations (and the description contains the basic parameters of the transmitters). It lets you look around your location and see where your transmitters are.

It understands the formats for Analog & Digital TV, AM & FM radio, and the temporary licence information as well.

Is that useful enough to post? I think it's pretty

Gully · Post by **Gully** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:51

Well I was going to say, when did you have them last to see if that helped you find them again.

Sounds like it could be useful and pretty.

prl · Post by **prl** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 13:22

Gully wrote:Well I was going to say, when did you have them last to see if that helped you find them again.
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No, if I'd wanted to be asked that, I'd have asked about my keys!

Gully · Post by **Gully** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 13:38

prl wrote:
Gully wrote:Well I was going to say, when did you have them last to see if that helped you find them again.
...
No, if I'd wanted to be asked that, I'd have asked about my keys!

Well if you had asked that I would have told you they were on the kitchen table.

peteru · Post by **peteru** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 15:41

Bring it on!

It should allow people to align their antenna by either using a compass/GPS or by aiming at landmarks they recognise from Google maps/earth.

grunta · Post by **grunta** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 20:23

peteru wrote:Bring it on!

It should allow people to align their antenna by either using a compass/GPS or by aiming at landmarks they recognise from Google maps/earth.

Yeah

what do you mean you haven't written a gui yet !!

grunta · Post by **grunta** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 20:26

I've tried doing this already by driving to MT Dandenong ones, but I'm below the direct horizon and covered in trees, and haven't gotten around to going to Selby yet

the MT Dandenong ones differ slightly from Google earth and the gps settings I took, you can see them on Google earth

prl · Post by **prl** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 21:01

Sounds like people want it. Maybe on the weekend

prl · Post by **prl** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 16:14

rtv2kml - Convert ACMA Radio & TV station data into Google Earth placemarks

Now available on http://www.beyonwizsoftware.net/.

Have fun!

prl · Post by **prl** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 16:23

grunta wrote:...
the MT Dandenong ones differ slightly from Google earth and the gps settings I took, you can see them on Google earth

What lat/long datum do you have set up for your GPS?

The lat/longs in the old AGD66 datum (also used in the ACMA data) differ from the same lat/long values in the WGS84 datum used by Google earth by about 200m. The AGD datum is optimised for the best fit to the shape of the earth in the Australian region; WGS is a best whole-of-earth fit.

rtv2kml does the conversion with a method that's accurate to about 5-10m; it's all the horrible stuff in the molodenskiy() routine.

grunta · Post by **grunta** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 19:14

LOL ........no idea

I borrowed a GPS uniit

prl · Post by **prl** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 15:49

Update of rtv2kml to version 0.1.1.

New features:

Adds --state option that allows output for only the specified state(s).

Fixed:

If the name of an input file for TV stations doesn't contain either AnalogTV or DigitalTV, no output will be produced for the stations in it.

prl · Post by **prl** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 16:02

Update of rtv2kml to version 0.1.2.

New features:

Adds --icon option that allows the placemark icon to be set.
Introductory material added to the documentation, some contributed by NPR from the Beyonwiz Forum.

prl · Post by **prl** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 17:37

rtv2kml source code is now also available on OpenWiz.

prl · Post by **prl** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 13:15

The rtv2kml release page has moved home.

Jani is no longer able to continue supporting the BeyonwizSoftware BB. Many thanks to Jani for providing the service.

rtv2kml releases are now available from the OpenWiz Software page.

Subversion access to the rtv2kml source is unchanged.

prl · Post by **prl** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 13:59

Update of rtv2kml to version 0.1.3.

A Perl script to convert the data in the Excel version of the [http://acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_9150 Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations Book] into [http://earth.google.com/ Google Earth] placemarks in a .kml file.

Useful for finding the direction from your home to your broadcast transmitters, and for verifying transmitter details.

New features:

Contains precompiled versions for OS X, Windows and Cygwin that don't require installations of ''perl'' or of any additional ''perl'' packages.
Now handles data for digital radio transmitters.
Handles <tt>.csv</tt> files generated by OpenOffice Calc.
Uses <tt>Text::CSV::Simple</tt> to parse <tt>.csv</tt> files properly. Required to parse CSV files generated by OpenOffice Calc.
Made the detection of Analog/Digital TV and Digital Radio file names more flexible.
Updated documentation, especially about using the compiled version.
Added a README.txt with detailed installation information.

Bugs fixed:

Expands filename wildcard characters properly in Windows.

And yes, new versions of getWizPnP wil also include precompiled versions

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