So for the second time, the FCC has stopped updating my data source (the first time was the Spectrum Dashboard, and then I rewrote my scripts to parse the License View data dump).
I’m loathe to rewrite it for a third time (using the direct data dumps from the ULS) mostly because I’m too busy. With 50 hour work weeks becoming more frequent, a wife, and friends I don’t get to see much, I don’t have a lot of free time anymore (when I first wrote this, I was single, all my friends were married, and had tremendous amounts of free time). Its one thing to fire up a python script once every two weeks to download and update the data from the FCC, its another thing to have to dedicate 100+ hours to rewrite the back end from scratch (data processing, cleanup, normalization, store into a DB, generate static data files).
So I think this might be the end, if the FCC doesn’t update the License View dataset ever again. I could care less about their Spectrum Dashboard, that was a difficult tool to use productively. But the raw License View data was much easier to ingest and process – its way more valuable to the community. Lets hope this doesn’t fall on deaf ears.
Your efforts are appreciated. It will be a sad day if the Gateway goes. Thank you for all that you put into this site. It is immensely useful.
I also hope this it not the end. This map shows good info.
Really sad to see that you won’t be updating this wonderful site anymore. This was a pretty cool & informative source of info. Please let me know if any donations can be made. Thanks!
The map is currently claiming to be using August 2016 data. I hope this means the FCC has turned the data feed you’re using back on and isn’t a display bug on the site (assuming always has current data).
I’m not 100% sure though because I read that TMobile recently bought additional 700 MHz Lower A spectrum (primarily) from the C700 and Cavalier groups which isn’t yet reflected on the map. I thought the purchase was a done deal a few months ago, although I suppose the actual license transfers or updating of FCC data themselves could be slow instead.
The FCC is updating their data again. I assume its new license data. It does often take the FCC a while for the transactions to officially close.