A while back I ran into a problem with the government-run map server that the site uses to plot coverage maps and transmitter locations. I figured it would resolve itself in a day or twenty, so I promptly forgot that the Tiger map browser was not loading maps anymore.
That was about three months ago. And today, while working on the Montgomery page, I re-discovered the problem. No only can we (and the FCC) not plot transmitter locations, the Tiger map browser interface is completely broken.
Since this entire site is hand-written because I have neither the smarts nor the money to do a fancy-dancy database interface, that means I gotta go through and change about a hundred links to the map server on all the Technical Profile pages.
Joy.
Since there are a multitude of plotting/mapping options available on other media websites like Radio-Locator, RECnet and FM/TV Fool, I am not going to be in any hurry to fix all those links. (And I was in a hurry to do Montgomery but I still put it off for six months, so… buyer beware.)
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