I have given some thought to this before and suggest the following: 1) Take all ASL sites that did not provided Lat Lon and put them at 0 - 0 ... or in the middle an ocean 2A) Somewhere there has to be a database to convert Lat Lon to a city and state name. Use this to populate City and State. This will allow you to look at ASL Nodes in a City or State. 2B) The formula to obtain distance between two sets of Lat Lons is pretty simple. You could use those results to find ASL nodes within X miles of some other node. 3) If 2A and/or 2B is implemented bolster assistance in setting Lat Lon information when obtaining a new ASL node number. 73, ...STeve - KF5VH On 9/24/2017 12:12 AM, Benjamin Naber wrote:
I'm very well aware the next lines of this message could be a very time consuming project.
I think the ability for something along the lines to sort ASL nodes, separated by, at least, Country and State/Province would possibly encourage more activity among nodes connected to repeaters that do not see a lot of local activity for whatever reason. Trying to find a ASL node in state like GA, searching the stats page for "GA" results in many matches with wherever "GA" is found. Given the nature of a community updated site like repeater-book, which is awesome, does not have all open repeaters with ASL.
Echostink and IRLP have this capability. During our weekly ASL TechNet, the available search options on stats.allstarlink.org, gets brought up.
Perhaps, just a few mods can be made to the Allstar Server config page, where City, State/Province, Country are separate entry dialog boxes, and select boxes for "testing" or "Portable". If one or the other select box is checked for "Testing" or "Portable", location info is not required and portable/test ASL nodes could have a separate "location" category of their own. Which by the way, this category could be at the bottom of the stats page, as most portable nodes, when used on cellular networks, do not allow incoming connections, anyhow.
The top of the stats page can use the arrow-sort type 'buttons' to select sort display results, next to the column name. This may enable sorting by frequency, country, state, city, callsign, first heard, or node number.
This kind of thing, as stated, will take time. That said, reasonable refining ideas should be made by the group, and perhaps volunteers for coding to make it work, and on the present stats page, a link to the developmental stats page.
I cannot tell you the first thing about coding, but I can offer a public IP and dev. server space at a datacenter I work in.
Obviously, the implementation is ultimately up to the powers-that-be, but it sure would be nice to have some 'sort' of better sorting. Especially for travelers looking for ASL nodes in areas they are transiting through or visiting.
~Benjamin, KB9LFZ
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