[Xastir-dev] Another way to use the street address stuff?

Alan Crosswell alan at columbia.edu
Wed May 5 14:25:22 EDT 2004


I've done similar stuff for my ARES/RACES roster using tiger/line data in the 
past (tiger/line loaded into postgres).
/a

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> It occured to me last night during my commute that one could process
> the FCC data using the street address lookups in order to come up
> with a location file (GNIS file perhaps?) containing the location of
> every ham in the database.  Then as I drive around I could see where
> the hams were located around me.
> 
> Might be useful when looking for high spots for houses, or just
> plain gawking at peoples antenna sites.  I've also wondered just how
> many hams are in my immediate area, antennas or no.
> 
> Anyone interested in trying this?
> 
> --
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