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Creating Site Map Files through Sitesee Tool



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Creating Site Map Files Through SiteSee Tool



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Table of Contents 1 Adding SiteSee Tool to Mapinfo.................................................................................................. 2 Creating Site Data......................................................................................................................... 3 Creating Site Map Files................................................................................................................ 4 Creating Sector Map Files............................................................................................................ 5 Site Map Display.........................................................................................................................



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List of Figures Figure 1-1 Tool Manager dialog box....................................................................................4 Figure 1-2 Selecting SiteSee tool to be added in the Tool Definition...................................5 Figure 1-3 Tool Manager dialog box settings.......................................................................5 Figure 1-4 Table->WFI SiteSee........................................................................................... 6 Figure 3-1 Site data settings................................................................................................ 7 Figure 3-2 Create Points items............................................................................................ 8 Figure 3-3 Symbol Style items............................................................................................. 8 Figure 4-1 SiteSee settings................................................................................................. 9 Figure 5-1 Site map display...............................................................................................10



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The software version used for the operations is Mapinfo7.0 (English version), and the 7.0 SiteSee tool (Chinese version) is unavailable. The SiteSee tool is not used in Mapinfo5.0 version.



Adding SiteSee Tool to Mapinfo To add the SiteSee tool to Mapinfo, do as follows: 1)



Select Tools -> Tool Manager… in the Mapinfo menu, and then click Add Tool, as shown in Figure 1.1.



Figure 1.1 Tool Manager dialog box



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In the pop-up dialog box, do the following operations, as shown in Figure 2.1: a) In the Title column, set the tool name. b) In the Location column, click the button in the right to select the path where Sitesee.MBX is located.



SiteSee file:



SiteSee.MBX



c) Click OK.



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Figure 2.1 Selecting SiteSee tool to be added in the Tool Definition



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Return to the Tool Manager dialog box, as shown in Figure 3.1. In the Tools list, there is Sitesee. Tick off the Loaded and Autoload. ”Loaded” means that you can load the SiteSee tool immediately. ”Autoload” means the SiteSee tool is loaded automatically when you start the Mapinfo software.



Figure 3.1 Tool Manager dialog box settings



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Click OK, as shown in Figure 4.1, and then select Table -> WFI SiteSee.



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Figure 4.1 Table->WFI SiteSee



Creating Site Data Similar to the site data in the following attachment, SiteNum, SectorName, BSName, Longitude, Latitude, Azimuth, and Width of Wave Petal are mandatory items. The attachment is saved as a file in the format of .txt.



Lankabell Sites.xls



In the above-mentioned mandatory items, SiteNum can be BSName or CellID, which is used to identify uniquely a BTS, but the item should be in the front of the column. BSName and SectorName are actually not mandatory items. For the purpose of labeling a BTS and sector, these items are recommended. SectorName can be replaced with SectorID.



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Creating Site Map Files To create site map files, do as follows: 1)



Select File -> Open, and open the site data file (in .txt format). A dialog box is displayed, as shown in Figure 1.1. Do the following settings: a) In the Delimiter column, select Tab. b) In the File Character Set drop-down list, select No character set conversation. Other items may not support the Chinese interface. c) Tick off Use First Line for Column Titles. d) Click OK.



Figure 1.1 Site data settings



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Select Table -> Create Points…, as shown in Figure 2.1. Do the following operations: a)



Click the button in the right of using Symbol. In the pop-up dialog box, as shown in Figure 2.2, set the site display attributes, including Font, Symbol, and Color.



b)



In the Get X… drop-down list, select Longitude.



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In the Get Y… drop-down list, select Latitude.



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Click OK. The site map files are created. Under the directory where site data file (in .txt format), there are three site map files in the format of .TAB, .ID, and .Map.



Figure 2.1 Create Points items



Figure 2.2 Symbol Style items



Creating Sector Map Files To create sector map files, do as follows:



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Select File -> Open, and open the site data file (in .txt format). A dialog box is displayed, as shown in 3.1.1 IFigure 1.1.



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Select Table -> WFI SiteSee -> Create Site Boundaries, and then do the following operations, as shown in Figure 2.1: a) In the Site Latitude from column, select Latitude. b) In the Site Longitude from column, select Longitude. c) In the Site radius from column, set the sector map display radius. d) Tick off Use Site Sectorization. e) In the Beamwidth from Column, set the sector map display beamwidth. Generally, the sector horizontal beamwidth is recommended. f)



In the Orientation from Column, set the sector display orientation. Generally, set Azimuth_degree.



g) Click OK. h) In the pop-up dialog box, type the sector map filename, such as ”Lankabell Sector”. Under the corresponding directory, four files in the formats of .DAT, .TAB, .ID, and .Map are displayed.



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Figure 2.1 SiteSee settings



Site Map Display Select File -> Open, and open the created Site and Sector map files (in the format of .TAB). The site map is displayed, as shown in Figure 1.1.



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Figure 1.1 Site map display



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