{"id":41747,"date":"2020-01-26T14:53:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T18:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=41747"},"modified":"2020-01-26T14:53:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T18:53:20","slug":"visualizing-the-geography-of-fm-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/visualizing-the-geography-of-fm-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Visualizing the Geography of FM Radio&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/radio_circles_final-e1580064617194.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41749\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/radio_circles_final-1024x658.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/erdavis.com\/2020\/01\/04\/visualizing-the-geography-of-fm-radio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ERDavis.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This project, like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/erdavis.com\/2019\/12\/25\/whats-the-biggest-one-hit-wonder-on-spotify\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the one before it<\/a>, started as an offshoot of another project that I\u2019ll finish\u2026 someday\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I start one project, which brings up questions I need to answer in other projects, so I start those projects, which lead to more questions\u2026 and before I know it I have a tangled mess that\u2019ll take months to sort out.\u00a0 To illustrate, there\u2019s currently 11 projects in my \u201cActive\u201d queue and 11 more in my \u201cPaused\u201d queue.\u00a0I\u2019m personally very proud that I get anything done at all!<\/p>\n<p>For this particular tangled project mess, I needed to see how many classical music radio stations there are in the States. That quickly lead to wanting to plot where those classical stations broadcast.\u00a0<em>That<\/em>\u00a0lead to a burning desire to map all radio station broadcast areas,\u00a0<em>ever,<\/em>\u00a0and also to map how many radio stations broadcast in a given area.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]I started by simply plotting the service contours of the 20,000-odd stations on my list. I love the way this looks, like phosphorescent jellyfish or raindrops on water.[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erdavis.com\/2020\/01\/04\/visualizing-the-geography-of-fm-radio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article and view all images.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: ERDavis.com) This project, like\u00a0the one before it, started as an offshoot of another project that I\u2019ll finish\u2026 someday\u2026 I start one project, which brings up questions I need to answer in other projects, so I start those projects, which lead to more questions\u2026 and before I know it I have a tangled mess that\u2019ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3781,3],"tags":[8282,1384,8281],"class_list":["post-41747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-news","tag-er-davis","tag-fm-radio","tag-fm-radio-geography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aRl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30039,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/ny-times-on-the-rise-of-low-power-community-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":41747,"position":0},"title":"NY Times on the rise of low power community radio","author":"Thomas","date":"January 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: NY Times via Mike Hansgen) As Low-Power Local Radio Rises, Tiny Voices Become a Collective Shout SEATTLE \u2014 A knowledge of geography is essential if you are running a tiny, 100-watt radio station. 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