#63 Be able to manage radio links

This is still work in progress and first I would like feedback about this.

We often talk about links that are active or planned, but yet don't have way to represent or visualize them easily. Visualizing them also allow newcomers or the general public to more easily understand what this kind of project is about (the concept of point-to-point links using antenna), its status and possibilities, rather than just random marker on the map.

This PR proposes to add the possibility to manage links from the admin interface, and visualize them on the map. Links have a state (tobetested, planned, active, broken, decomissioned...) which impacts the color of their representation.

Since this is still a POC, for now all links are publicly displayed, but we might want to make those private ... (though I'm not a big fan of having to log in to just show / work on things :s)

Attached is a screenshot showing a few test data

Any thoughts on this ? :S

Results seems great ! And we clearly lack some background data to better explain how does it work.

I am wondering however if allowing to display any GeoJSON on a map layer (geojson URLs being listed in settings) would not open more possibilities… With less work :).

Standard use case : you draw your links on a umap, and display them within wifi-with-me using geojson export link in WWM settings.

This would bring more flexibility.

For example, at FAImaison, I suspect we would prefer displaying publicly « covered areas » polygons rather than links. But ARN could make another choice.

WDYT about that ?

NB: Just thinking/discussing, this is not because I discuss other leads that I am against this feature. If my lead fullfils both ARN and FAImaison needs, I'd suggest switching to it. Otherwise, I'd be happy that we include this feature here :-).

Thanks for the feedback ;P

I think us too would like to be able to display polygons showing covered areas. On the other hand, I'm really wondering about how realistic it is to represent this to get something really meaningful (in terms of, looking at the map, you can directly know if you are eligible or not)

First, drawing the coverage polygon seems to be quite hard, you need to take into account all buildings blockings the way and so on ...

and Secondly, a lot of things depends wether you think in terms of antenna on the balcony or on the roof. I.e. someone may see your building but you don't have a window in that direction...

The idea behind that people don't get many false positive because of the inaccuracy of the map or its hypothesis.

How would you see it work ?

I think us too would like to be able to display polygons showing covered areas. On the other hand, I'm really wondering about how realistic it is to represent this to get something really meaningful

Yes, this is an approximation. But gives an idea of which neighborhoods could be covered, and shows the per-neighborhood organization.

See our polygons here : https://www.faimaison.net/services/wifi.html#zones-desservies

Background : our network is very close to the ground, not a lot of points with great altitude.

(in terms of, looking at the map, you can directly know if you are eligible or not)

Sadly… This is just not possible, neither showing links or polygons. So, this is a rough aproximation, and that is why wifi-with-me is still required. At our scale, Eligibility test always requires human advice, tests on the field, or even setting up relays…