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INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................ 3 1.1 1.2 GENERAL .................................................................................................................. 3 REQUIRED TABLE FORMAT ...................................................................................... 3 FROM MS EXPLORER ............................................................................................... 3 FROM MAPINFO ........................................................................................................ 4 TOOL BUTTON .......................................................................................................... 4 MENU BAR ................................................................................................................ 4

STARTING MAPBASIC PROGRAM .......................................................................... 3 2.1 2.2

MAKE_SECTOR TOOL ................................................................................................ 4 3.1 3.2

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS.......................................................................................... 7

APPENDIX A .......................................................................................................................... 8 APPENDIX B .......................................................................................................................... 9

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Introduction
General
This MapBasic tool will create a MapInfo table of pie shaped sectors for a given cell site 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 to the 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 Sector name Beam width Cell size Carrier or Freq PNs or SCs Neighbor lists Statistical data

The table can also contain additional sector information as needed.

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2.1

Starting MapBasic Program

From MS explorer
Double click make_sectors.mbx from within an explorer window. The tool will be opened into the most recently opened MapInfo session. If MapInfo is not open, the tool will open a new MapInfo session.

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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.

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 will start 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 (figure 2).

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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 to create each sector symbol. If no tables are open the user will be prompted to open a table 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. The new sector table will be saved to the selected table unless the Save As New File option 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 width information. 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 size information (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. The new file can be an existing table, excel, text or dbf file. The file must be in the same format 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 about the tools creator.

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Exit Selecting Make Sectors>Exit will terminate the MapBasic tool. All menus and tool bars will be removed.

Additional Comments
To update sector lat/long or azimuth information the user must update the table and run make_sectors again to update map. To update other sector information the user can change the sector information and reload the table. To add or delete sectors, the user must delete and recreate the MapInfo table file (.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 be included all others are optional. Additional columns and information can be included as necessary. Columns can be in any order and with any title.
ID Site_ID SECT 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 Long Lat Azimuth BW 50 170 315 0 120 240 90 210 330 15 135 255 0 120 240 Ant type Elec Tilt Mech Tilt Structure PN 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rooftop Rooftop 4 8

1 WAT-001 1 WAT-001 1 WAT-001 2 WAT-002 2 WAT-002 2 WAT-002 4 WAT-004 4 WAT-004 4 WAT-004 5 WAT-005 5 WAT-005 5 WAT-005 6 WAT-006 6 WAT-006 6 WAT-006

-85.5311886 35.1634344 -85.5311886 35.1634344 -85.5311886 35.1634344 -85.5151486 35.1680292 -85.5151486 35.1680292 -85.5151486 35.1680292 -85.5048563 35.1101571 -85.5048563 35.1101571 -85.5048563 35.1101571 -85.3641721 35.1266426 -85.3641721 35.1266426 -85.3641721 35.1266426 -85.4839597 35.2061799 -85.4839597 35.2061799 -85.4839597 35.2061799

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Rooftop 12 Monopole 16 Monopole 20 Monopole 24 Monopole 40 Monopole 44 Monopole 48 Monopole 52 Monopole 56 Monopole 60 Monopole 64 Monopole 68 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.