{"id":291,"date":"2016-05-24T20:15:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T03:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2016-05-24T20:15:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T03:15:45","slug":"end-of-the-spectrum-map-part-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/end-of-the-spectrum-map-part-deux\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the Spectrum Map? Part deux&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So for the second time, the FCC has <a href=\"http:\/\/reboot.fcc.gov\/license-view\/\">stopped updating my data source<\/a> (the first time was the <a href=\"http:\/\/reboot.fcc.gov\/spectrumdashboard\/\">Spectrum Dashboard<\/a>, and then I rewrote my scripts to parse the License View data dump).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m loathe to rewrite it for a third time (using the <a href=\"http:\/\/wireless.fcc.gov\/uls\/index.htm?job=transaction&amp;page=weekly\">direct data dumps from the ULS<\/a>) mostly because I&#8217;m too busy. With 50 hour work weeks becoming more frequent, a wife, and friends I don&#8217;t get to see much, I don&#8217;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).<\/p>\n<p>So I think this might be the end, if the FCC doesn&#8217;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 &#8211; its way more valuable to the community. Lets hope this doesn&#8217;t fall on deaf ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;m loathe to rewrite it for a third time (using the direct data dumps from the ULS) mostly because I&#8217;m too busy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/end-of-the-spectrum-map-part-deux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">End of the Spectrum Map? Part deux&#8230;<\/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-291","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\/p25yC9-4H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specmap.sequence-omega.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}