<div dir="ltr">Some coordinators are modernizing, WWARA is publishing Lat/Long (precision may vary, which takes care of those who are using sites they don't want exposed -- a debate for another topic). The lat/long data isn't complete yet, but they are getting very little push back from repeater owners for publishing -- look at the csv in this file <a href="https://www.wwara.org/DataBaseExtract.zip">https://www.wwara.org/DataBaseExtract.zip</a><div><br></div><div>Incidentally, a coordination body could publish this to APRS-IS as a set of APRS objects, with a simple script once a day.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Sterling Coffey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kawfey@gmail.com" target="_blank">kawfey@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Just a few cents: repeater tower locations in RFinder (and other apps) are 1.) dependent on user data, which is errorprone 2.) a hotly debated privacy topic, which many repeater owners prefer city center's be the origination of their repeater or else a telecom company will discover there are hams taking up valuable tower space, potentially being a liability and 3.) often <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/3s4y6n/breaking_the_sera_control_on_regional_repeater/" target="_blank">protected by repeater coordination bodies as valuable proprietary information</a>, which is IMO outside of the bounds of the spirit of amateur radio. <br><br></div>Have you tried getting data from Repeaterbook? <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><hr><div style="float:left;padding-left:1em"><font><font><font color="#0000ff">John D. Hays</font><br><font color="#000000">Edmonds, WA</font></font></font></div><div style="float:left;padding-left:1em;color:blue"><font><span style="color:rgb(128,128,128)"><font>K7VE</font></span></font><br><span style="color:rgb(128,128,128)"><font></font></span></div><div style="float:left;padding-left:1em;color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(128,128,128)"><br></span></div><div style="float:right;text-align:right"><div style="padding-top:0.5em"><img src="http://k7ve.org/images/Facebook-26.png" style="font-size:12.8px"> <img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B16WvG35kZ7SUFYwZldBMmJXeWs&revid=0B16WvG35kZ7STXlkYm1oMkpHYzVxOUlxVEtXc1dqMXZhdjZFPQ" style="font-size:12.8px"> <a href="http://k7ve.org/blog" target="_blank"><img src="http://k7ve.org/images/blog-icon-box-red-26.png"></a> <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/john_hays" target="_blank"><img src="http://k7ve.org/images/Twitter-26.png"></a></div><div style="padding-top:0.5em"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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