{"id":120,"date":"2013-03-06T19:04:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T03:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2013-03-06T19:04:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T03:04:54","slug":"end-of-data-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/end-of-data-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"End of data updates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to update my Spectrum Map, I use data from the <a href=\"http:\/\/reboot.fcc.gov\/reform\/systems\/spectrum-dashboard\">FCC Spectrum Dashboard<\/a> (its helpful CSV export functions). Unfortunately, we&#8217;ve gone two months now where the FCC hasn&#8217;t updated it. And I don&#8217;t know if they will resume them.<\/p>\n<p>If I want to keep the Spectrum Mapper going, I&#8217;ll have to figure out a way to get at the same sort of FCC data I had before. Raw license data is easy (kind of) &#8211; they have a way to download the entire license database into a 10GB text file (1GB ZIP file). I have a python script already that will go through and pull out all the cellular license data. But the issue from there is it doesn&#8217;t come with population-specific information on geographically disaggregated licenses (when two or more companies split a geographic area into smaller parts) and no county-level data (which is what I was using as the basis in my system). The FCC ULS has county level data, but I don&#8217;t feel comfortable screen scraping the FCC&#8217;s website, lest they call it &#8220;unauthorized access&#8221; and threaten to throw me in jail for 30 years like Aaron Schwartz.<\/p>\n<p>So for now I&#8217;m stuck. Even if I figured out a solution, I cant do much until May anyways, since my weekends are spent writing papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to update my Spectrum Map, I use data from the FCC Spectrum Dashboard (its helpful CSV export functions). Unfortunately, we&#8217;ve gone two months now where the FCC hasn&#8217;t updated it. And I don&#8217;t know if they will resume them. If I want to keep the Spectrum Mapper going, I&#8217;ll have to figure out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/end-of-data-updates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">End of data updates?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-path-forward"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25yC9-1W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}