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InternalAbsolut Design & Engineering
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Make Sectors Tool
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1 INTRODUCTION..................................... ........................................... ............................ 3
1.1 GENERAL.................................................................................................................. 31.2 REQUIRED TABLE FORMAT ...................................................................................... 3
2 STARTING MAPBASIC PROGRAM .......................................... ................................ 3
2.1 FROM MS EXPLORER............................................................................................... 3
2.2 FROM MAPINFO ........................................................................................................ 4
3 MAKE_SECTOR TOOL....................................... ............................................... .......... 4
3.1 TOOL BUTTON.......................................................................................................... 43.2 MENU BAR ................................................................................................................ 4
4 ADDITIONAL COMMENTS........................................ ............................................... ... 7
APPENDIX A ........................................... ........................................... .................................... 8
APPENDIX B ........................................... ........................................... .................................... 9
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1 Introduction
1.1 General
This MapBasic tool will create a MapInfo table of pie shaped sectors for a given cellsite database. The table can be used to label sector symbols with unique information(i.e. sector name, sector type or sector stats). Thematic layers can also be applied tothe table for graphical analysis.
1.2 Required Table Format
The input table must contain at least the following information for each sector.
Latitude (degree-decimal)
Longitude (degree-decimal)
Azimuth
The table can also contain additional sector information as needed.
Sector name
Beam width
Cell size
Carrier or Freq
PNs or SCs
Neighbor lists
Statistical data
2 Starting MapBasic Program
2.1 From MS explorer
Double click make_sectors.mbxfrom within an explorer window.The tool will be opened into the most recently opened MapInfo session. IfMapInfo is not open, the tool will open a new MapInfo session.
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2.2 From MapInfo
Select File>Run MapBasic Program.
Choose directory and file make_sectors.mbx.
Click Open button.
The tool will be opened in the current MapInfo session.
3 Make_Sector Tool
The cell site table should be open before starting the sector creation process.Importing an excel file is described in Appendix B.
3.1 Tool Button
Figure 1: tool button
A floating tool button will be added to MapInfo (figure1). Clicking the tool button willstart the process described below in section 3.2.1.
3.2 Menu Bar
Figure 2: menu bar
A new menu Make Sectors will be added to the end of the current menu bar (figure2).
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3.2.1 Create Sectors
Selecting Make Sectors>Create Sectors will open the tools set-up window (figure 3).The window allows the user to specify the columns or fixed values the tool will use tocreate each sector symbol. If no tables are open the user will be prompted to open atable first. Importing an excel file is described in Appendix B.
Figure 3: make sector set-up window
From Table
Select, from a list of open tables, which table contains the sector information. Thenew sector table will be saved to the selected table unless the Save As New Fileoption is checked.
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Latitude
Select the column that contains the latitude information in degree-decimal format.
Longitude
Select the column that contains the longitude information in degree-decimal format.
Azimuth
Select the column that contains the azimuth information.
Beam Width
Use default box checked - Enter value to use for the beam width of all sectors.
Use default box not checked - Select the column that contains the sector beam widthinformation.
Sector Size
Use default box checked - Enter value to use for the sector size of all sectors (miles).
Use default box not checked - Select the column that contains the sector sizeinformation (miles).
Select Sector Color
Click symbol to change fill pattern and color for all sectors.
Cancel
Click to exit set-up window without creating table.
Open New File
Click to open a new file into MapInfo and add to the available table selection. Thenew file can be an existing table, excel, text or dbf file. The file must be in the sameformat as described in section 1.2. Importing an excel file is described in Appendix B.
Make Sectors
Click to create sector table.
3.2.2 Tool Info
Selecting Make Sectors>Tool Info will display a window containing information aboutthe tools creator.
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3.2.3 Exit
Selecting Make Sectors>Exit will terminate the MapBasic tool. All menus and toolbars will be removed.
4 Additional Comments
To update sector lat/long or azimuth information the user must update thetable and run make_sectors again to update map.
To update other sector information the user can change the sector informationand reload the table.
To add or delete sectors, the user must delete and recreate the MapInfo tablefile (.tab) then run the make_sectors again.
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Appendix A
Below is a sample table format. Information in the red highlighted columns must beincluded all others are optional. Additional columns and information can be includedas necessary. Columns can be in any order and with any title.
ID Site_ID SECT Long Lat Azimuth BW Ant type Elec Tilt Mech Tilt Structure PN
1 WAT-001 1 -85.5311886 35.1634344 50 65 Sa65132.plt 2 0 Rooftop 4
1 WAT-001 2 -85.5311886 35.1634344 170 65 Sa65132.plt 2 0 Rooftop 8
1 WAT-001 3 -85.5311886 35.1634344 315 65 Sa65132.plt 2 0 Rooftop 122 WAT-002 1 -85.5151486 35.1680292 0 65 Sa65132.plt 2 0 Monopole 16
2 WAT-002 2 -85.5151486 35.1680292 120 65 Sa65132.plt 2 0 Monopole 20
2 WAT-002 3 -85.5151486 35.1680292 240 65 Sa65132.plt 2 0 Monopole 24
4 WAT-004 1 -85.5048563 35.1101571 90 65 Sa65130.plt 2 0 Monopole 40
4 WAT-004 2 -85.5048563 35.1101571 210 65 Sa65130.plt 2 0 Monopole 44
4 WAT-004 3 -85.5048563 35.1101571 330 65 Sa65130.plt 2 0 Monopole 48
5 WAT-005 1 -85.3641721 35.1266426 15 65 Sa65132.plt 2 0 Monopole 52
5 WAT-005 2 -85.3641721 35.1266426 135 65 Sa65132.plt 2 0 Monopole 56
5 WAT-005 3 -85.3641721 35.1266426 255 65 Sa65132.plt 2 0 Monopole 606 WAT-006 1 -85.4839597 35.2061799 0 65 Sa65132.plt 2 0 Monopole 64
6 WAT-006 2 -85.4839597 35.2061799 120 65 Sa65132.plt 2 0 Monopole 68
6 WAT-006 3 -85.4839597 35.2061799 240 65 Sa65132.plt 2 0 Monopole 72
Example 1: sample table
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Appendix B
The following steps through the procedure to import an Excel file into MapInfo.
1. Select File>Open Table.
2. Change File of Type to Microsoft Excel (*.xls).
3. Find saved excel file and click Open button.
4. Import table information window opens.
Figure 5: table information window
Select Other from Name Range.
o Change A1 to A2.
Check Use Row Above Selected Range for Column Titles
Click OK button.
5. File is imported. Run make_sectors.mbx.