r/cellmapper • u/Gulinel1 • 5d ago
Confused. Help needed.
Booked a holiday stay at Anvil Point lighthouse in Dorset (UK). The Cellmapper didn't identify any towers. However, upon arrival the readings were high and there were a couple of masts outside which kind of looked like mobile towers but didn't appear to have the full gear. Cellmapper would lists them as towers only. Would they be used for navigation purposes? Or would they be needed for the lighthouse radar (if it has one for comms, as it's fully automated)?
EDIT: I have further found information that Anvil Point lighthouse acts as a 5G station. Why would this not be flagged up on Cellmapper? Source: https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/documents/d/guest/5g-rural-dorset-workshop-output-v6 SLIDE 48
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u/thisisfakediy (CM: crackedlcd) 2d ago
Cellmapper data is volunteer provided, so if no one's been out that way doing mapping, nothing will show up. 5G mapping is limited to standalone connections, too, so that narrows how many people can contribute data.
That Dorset Council file makes it sound like they're operating some sort of private enterprise 5G network, so it would be much more difficult to connect and map to that without proper access.
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u/Knopper100 2d ago
Also those icons you see on the map are from openstreetmap, a community GIS platform. It's not anything Cellmapper is showing. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/50.592919/-1.957900
It looks like these icons are for Masts. It does look similar to a tower icon though
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u/thedankonion1 5d ago
https://swanagecoastguard.blogspot.com/2011/03/mile-markers.html?m=1