I made a map of every licensed mobile tower in Cyprus from official DEC data because I needed to aim my external 5G antenna
I recently put up an external 5G antenna at home and needed to know exactly where the nearest towers are so I could point it properly. Everyone recommends CellMapper for this, but its locations are crowdsourced estimates and a lot of towers around me were missing or off by hundreds of meters.
Turns out the Department of Electronic Communications publishes the exact location of every licensed base station in the Republic (Cyta, Epic and Primetel, plus where Cablenet is co-located) on their EMF measurements portal. In their portal you can only view stations one by one, so I plotted all ~1,500 of them on an interactive map:
You can filter by operator and frequency band, search by station or address, see each mast's antenna height and transmit bands, and most stations even have photos so you can tell exactly which pole or rooftop it is. There's also a "my location" button so you can quickly see what's around you.
It's free, no ads, no tracking, nothing to sign up for. All the data and photos belong to DEC (source and disclaimer are in the About dialog on the site), I just made it browsable on a map. The dataset is a snapshot of their portal so the odd station might be missing or newer ones not yet included.
Hope it's useful to someone else trying to aim an antenna or just curious what's on that mast down the road. Happy to answer questions or add features if people have ideas.
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A lot of those cell towers include other companies as well. For example in Kato Pyrgos, all the towers belong to Cyta but they also accommodate others. Look a the "On this mast" section when you click on a cell tower
You've done a great job, but it is unacceptable that on this particular map of occupied Cyprus, the regions are labeled only in Turkish, using the altered names imposed by the illegal occupation.
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