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Tower Location Data
In order to serve its clients
well, Steel in the Air maintains a comprehensive cell
tower location database. We have compiled this database
over 7 years from numerous publicly available databases
including the FCC Antenna Structure Registration data
and from some privately available cell tower location
databases.
To be candid, much of this data
could be assembled by almost anyone with GIS expertise
assuming they knew where to find the data. The key here
is knowing what sources of data are important and how
to pare down the information included in many databases
to that which is usable.
Other providers of cell tower
location data take pride in the quantity of data that
they have assembled. They state that they have acquired
200,000 or 250,000 cell site locations. What a prospective
purchaser or user needs to be aware of is that the data
may include potential cell site locations like rooftops
that are not currently used by cellular providers or
towers that have no tenants. Steel
in the Air spends a significant amount of time analyzing
and sorting through its data to remove all rooftop sites,
billboard sites, water tower sites, ect unless they
are known to be actually in use by a cellular provider.
Our cell tower location data is
exactly that - the locations of cell tower in the United
States. Our clients are tower companies looking to perform
competitive analysis on their prospective acquisitions
or their new builds. They like the reliability of our
cell tower location data. We don't promise that all
cell towers will be listed in our data- but we use our
best efforts to make sure that locations that are not
actual in-use cell sites are not included in the data.
That way, the client does not drive around looking for
a 2 story bank building that someone thought would make
a good cell site.
We also get contacted by fiber companies
looking to determine how many towers are located near
their fiber so that they can determine opportunities
for backhaul services via fiber to the wireless carriers
at the towers.
We also provide notations in our cell
tower location data as to where the portfolio originally
came from. For instance, we track which sites in the
Crown Castle portfolio were originally Sprint Sites
or Global Signal sites. This enables our clients to
have better information about who might be collocated
on the tower.
One thing that we can't provide is cell
site location IDs. We have received many inquiries from
prospective clients who want to offer a location based
service using cell site IDs to determine the location
of the user. The cellular carriers maintain this data
and it is not publicly available. Unfortunately, if
you are looking for cell site ID data- we cannot provide
it.
If you are interested in seeing some of
our data - please see some of our cell
tower location data maps. Please feel free to Contact
Us for more information.
Our data includes the following fields
to the extent such data was available in the original
data set.
Tower Company or Owner
Portfolio
Latitude and Longitude (NAD83- Decimal
Degree Format)
Site Address
FCC ASR Number
FAA Study Number
Data Constructed
Structure Height
Ground Elevation
Height AMSL
Compound Size
Tower Type
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