A new cell tower has popped up in the countryside north of me.
How long before these things pop up in gis.geek?
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My understanding is their data comes directly from RSM, see if you can find the site there
Sure it's a cell tower and not something else?
It may not be live yet -- sometimes there's a lag between when they complete the physical build and when they get round to registering the RSM licence and/or switch on. I know a few cases of months/years of wait before go live. E.g. Spark's Homai site was about 1.5-2 years before it actually went live (yes I checked every month since I lived the next suburb over). 2deg/One are usually pretty quick though.
Do you have a picture by any chance? That may help identify the carrier(s) involved. Seems rural so not sure if you can walk up to the equipment cabinets, but if you can get close often there are signs showing the operator details. If you can find site codes (typically AKL-###-### for 2degrees sites in Auckland, A#XXX for One sites in Auckland, XXXXX for Spark) for it would indicate go live has happened. However if the site has the operator details and the usual warning signs but no site code then may still be in progress of going live.
It could also be an RCG site -- if so it'll have their details as above and their site codes are normally RAKXXX for sites in Auckland.
But it could also be non-mobile -- it is quite a odd place to put a mobile tower as it's quite far out of the way (but then again could well be RCG).
Am hoping it is 2deg/One (or RCG) as their coverage north of Pukekohe is pretty poor and a site at that location could help improve coverage.
It's a Sparkler.
But I did!
Location: Near intersection of Tuhimata and Runciman Rds.
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Aucklandjafa: I think it takes a while to update. There’s a massive site in the middle of a paddock in South Featherston that’s been there for a couple of months that’s not on the site.
I was wondering why when visiting a mate on Runciman I was getting 5G when he had little Spark before. Has band n5 off it.
scottjpalmer: It is now shown https://gis.geek.nz/map/celltowers/location/yvmjbqyw/spark/runicman-road-njjg
Yay, now they need to put one up on the other side of the ridge so I can get some 5G goodness too.
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Is there any way to see the most recently added sites on GIS Geek? Or even on RSM (I tried searching, but filtering it is not easy!)
For what it's worth, the site was added to GIS Geek on the 15th of April, which makes sense as the licences were only turned on on the 11th.
@backfiah - If you subscribe to GIS Geek you can get email alerts of licence changes (expiry and new). I don't like pay-walling features but gotta fund the site somehow. You can get basically the same information regarding Cell Towers from RSM using these filters, give it a go:
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