 Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here in Jerusalem And I asked a question today on an internet forum may mentioned before reddit and asking is there any good Cellular reception checker that works well in Israel. So I mentioned in a couple of videos the last couple of weeks I've been working on getting a really really good backup internet connection here And when it comes to which set which cellular provider to go with You can use the data only similar you can use a regular package But you're in any event the connectivity you're going to get in Israel Or anywhere for that matter is going to be determined by whose Infrastructure you're using to a very large extent now. I talked about the difference between Mobile network operators also known as MNO's and mobile virtual network operators also known as MVNO's and an MVNO is essentially Looks on the outside the same thing an example in Israel at the time I'm recording this video because who knows what the market would look like in a few years an example would be Rami Levy mobile RAM RAM RAM does not have its own nationwide network of cell phone towers So what they do is use lease connectivity from a company that does like Salcom I can't remember who which which MVNO Rami Levy is And then they'll sell it on to consumers and typically for like a better package or something like that So that's that's how it works now I was asking if there's a coverage checker that you could see in a certain part of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem What's the coverage like so I posted a thread on reddit and I got back this very helpful reply from Asaf Shukri I hope I'm pronouncing that username correctly Shukri, I feel like the R is in a different place and I'm pronouncing it He said GovMap has a layer of active cellular antennas by provider on a map But I don't know if it really details coverage of users or frequencies Maybe there are differences in the coverage of different antennas You can see that there are bigger clusters in populated areas like central Tel Aviv because there's more users there But it doesn't mean better reception It does have details like technology generation as in 3G, 4G or 5G So he is correct There is a layer on the GIS for cellular receptions and it does indeed have that info on it So I just want to show how to find that so thank you to Asaf Shukri on reddit for that pointer So I've just done a video on GIS and it is actually like Such an amazing tool that it is worth just like knowing about its existence So this is it. It's GovMap.gov.ill Now you can't see that URL because my screen is a bit cropped But lest there be any doubts it is GovMap.gov.il and as you can tell from the website It is a government, it's a government resource. Now what this is is basically It's a GIS. It's a geographical information system So unlike Google Maps, it just has kind of a basic layer of a map It has a ton of data in different layers and those layers are maintained by different government agencies Typically or the government itself and they put a lot of data on the map that you can toggle on and toggle off And if you create an account on GovMap, you can even make your own layer And you can even access it by API. So there's lots and lots of fun to be had here But I'm making this video for people who just want to know about What antennas are in their area and for those who want to know about 5G. Now I'm aware of the potential for abuse here because and I don't really mean abuse I mean look some people are irrationally worried about 5G for you know Reasons that to the best of my knowledge have never been scientifically proven So these people might be able to have a field day tracking down their 5G antennas But look I don't believe what's the point of hiding info and I think it's great that the Israeli government Puts the info out there in the public domain on GIS So okay enough enough explanations. Let me show you what you need to do So when you go to the website you'll see and I recommend using it in in Hebrew because I've tried it in English There is a little English to see the English button here in the bottom left There is a little English Option, but in my experience it just does not work as well I didn't find the same amount of information on the English layer as I did on the Hebrew layer So therefore I recommend using the Hebrew layer. Um, okay, so You can click on it's not one of the default options. It just loads here when you click into To the best of my knowledge Therefore what I needed to do Was click on And that allows that allows you to get to the grand list The grand daddy list and this is like every layer that you can add to it and like look at this Look at this Look at how many there are it's it's insane. You can even if you can also filter by category Hirom bitochon So like emergency response Or just click on a color category to get all the categories Now, um, because I've added I've added this, um, you're not able to you're not able to get it Um, therefore I'm going to just go back here. Now if we go to let's Stay in Tel Aviv for the purpose of this. So you can see here. I have Antenot Sololariot Pilot, which means um operational Cellular antennas, and if you click on this little arrow to the right This is where the excitement happens where we can start doing filtering So, um, it gives you some information about the layer if you want to read that Mugdim, uh, she Oh, this is too much. This is too much effort to this hour of the night. Um, it was last updated on 16th of Uh, 16th of july and I'm recording this video in late august. So this is pretty frequently updated. I must say Um, so that's that's that little about the layer switch Uh chazara, please um, and then you can click into Uh, this option here Uh, which will allow you to change you can either draw a selection and build a little radius Um around them or click in them or do a circle Uh, so if I do like a square here Um, it'll sum up. It'll give you a little, uh, you see what it's done there. I'll give you like a little uh list of The results found in that area now. I am Not signed in I should be signed in I'm showing his or a, um, you'd say You'd say Don't need to name like sell I actually honestly having a hard time reading the Hebrew font a little bit Uh, so yeah, you can export and get it up as a spreadsheet So you can see I've now got a spreadsheet with the names in the end so it's very very very very powerful like look at the look at the extent of the data and liberating and this is the key bit so I'm gonna show you guys how you can filter on the layer here. So next thing I can do let's go back to the layer in terms of what I can filter on so that's what this guy does. I got the Nikudal wrong but click into a sinewn and in sinewn this is where you can do a lot of powerful filtering um so you can search you can firstly filter on a chevra on company so you can see cellcom, telephone and phi so phi serves hot and partner so there's essentially hot partner cellcom and telephone for infrastructures operation in israel and really three because it seems like phi is some company that I don't know exactly what their relationship is but you can just show the cellcom towers and watch we're only showing cellcom and only show the telephone towers and watch we're only showing telephone and this we're in televiv somewhere and now if I go to that call we'll take away all that filtering and just showing everything including the phi towers. Now what else can you do? I search by search by ishuv by settlement I think the only really other significant thing that people would be interested in is showing what the antennas are actually broadcasting and that's this last one it's last because it's ordered alphabetically technologiot shidoro which means broadcasting technologies and here you can search according to what they're doing so if you're interested to know if 5g is in your area or coming to your area you can click on so I'm going to do five now the way they've added this is there's separate filters for five five and four five four three two five four three you get me because some of the antennas are equipped with transmitting equipment for just 5g actually I don't think there's any just for 5g I may be mistaken but more typically it's like 5g 3g and 4g so I'm just going to add I've added five and four five four three two and now we're starting to show towers five four three five four three what else do we need to do five four three two and only five so now we've added all the filters and we can see all the radio towers in any area we zoom into that have 5g and you can see we're starting to find towers here so for instance there's this tower which is tower number 330125 it's operated by telephone and we can see this is the tower here yeah it's this one at 56 it's located on benyuhuda 56 um it was and it even tells you like really detailed information sorry some of that was wrong and this one is a three four and five g cellular antenna and that's where that's exactly where it is and you can even change over to satellite imagery and you can also do satellite imagery mixed onto with street numbers imposed so that is it let me just do a quick jump over to jerusalem and you can just once you've got the filters applied you can just quickly move between different cities um so if i go to jerusalem now it's not like in that so i'm just gonna physically migrate uh by scrolling um and you can see the same thing so the nice thing is that once you add the filters they are added onto the system and now you can see we're getting filters same level in same ones in jerusalem so uh out of interest is there any 5g antennas in the center of city indeed there are so we can click on to this one here and we can see it's a telephone operated antenna to 10366 uh it's on yafo um and uh just verify that's correct yep it is it it has equipment on it to broadcast over um 3g 4g and on 5g so uh that is essentially it that is how to use the gis system for seeing what radio antennas are in your area um if you are looking forward to 5g and you want to see what's there or you just want to see what cellular infrastructure is in your area because that might make a difference and if you're thinking about using an m uh mvno a mobile virtual network operator it would be worth knowing and i showed the last day how to do this and i'm just going to bring that across before i end the screencast here there's a good website called atiklishtaim uh and on tikla you have this table uh called tederim uh cellular iim um and you can see here well you can see if i make myself a little bit smaller uh you can see the three major um actual operators partner telephone and cell com i guess that's pfi i think was partner right um and you can see then the mvno's listed under them and uh now this is only current at the time i'm recording the screencast but you can use that table to see who your mvno uses or you can also probably just ask the company whose infrastructure they use and therefore then you can combine that by looking at this map to see who's broadcasting in a certain area hope this video was useful um and if you're interested in more videos on everything to do with technology some of it israel specific like this video some of it not some of it having nothing to do with technology then feel free to subscribe to this youtube channel thank you very much for watching