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Internet access and phone-mast signals

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As the weather is deciding to turn a little bit cooler / cloudier and not represent standing in the kitchen in-front of a fan-assisted oven with the door open, I decided that I would like to spend 1/2 a week (3-nights) working away from home, somewhere nice, somewhere near some water, like a lake, just somewhere pleasant that doesn't involve me driving the motorhome for 6hours.  As I've become a bit of a GIS mapping geek the past few months I thought I'd take a look at someplace local, not too far away that had an Adult camp site ( get your mind out of the gutter - I just don't like kids, just like I don't like Gen Z's , same thing, if I can avoid any contact or not be in their vicinity, I will take every measure - they annoy me - I am sure the feeling is mutual ).   With that in mind, I stumbled over this lovely place, right next to Chew Valley lake .  Okay, so why don't I just book in for a few nights and just bugger off there and keep myself to myself.  ...

JavaScript mapping

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Stumbled over this funky open-source library that looks pretty cool for 39Kb! Does the basics...and it's not Google.  nice.      Go visit LEAFLET here . Leaflet is the leading open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. Weighing just about  39 KB of JS , it has all the mapping  features  most developers ever need. Leaflet is designed with  simplicity ,  performance  and  usability  in mind. It works efficiently across all major desktop and mobile platforms, can be extended with lots of  plugins , has a beautiful, easy to use and  well-documented API  and a simple, readable  source code  that is a joy to  contribute  to. Yes, I am meant to be doing lots of "other" things... and I am distracting myself... okay, here's a very quick update on what I was doing last night in relation to getting multiple webcams to be detected at the same time and to analyse both a...