MyNeighbour: 3G Neighbour list visualization and modification in Mapinfo

Abstract

This document provides a guideline on how to install, launch and use the MapBasic macro MyNeighbour to create, view and modify 3G Neighbour lists with Mapinfo.

Installing and launching

Follow those steps:

First copy the macro in your local hard disk. The macro consists of a main file, MyNeighbourV4.0.mbx and the set of files Mysettings (*.dat, *.tab) and ChangeRequest (*.dat, *.tab, *.,ind)

Open the macro with Mapinfo before opening any other table [if not the message “Invalid view layer” might appear later]. Go to “Tools Run MapBasic Program MyNeighbourV4.0.mbx”. Following new menubar and Tools icons will appear once it is opened:

Inputs

The macro requires following inputs: 1 Mapinfo file with the UMTS sector information, at least:

o Geographical position in latitude and longitudeo Site identifiero Azimuth

1 Neighbour file with 2 columns:o 1st column for the serving cell identifier (same as previous Site

identifier)o 2nd column for the neighbouring cell identifier

Starting

Select in the menú bars “MyNeighbour Settings SectorTable”. There you need to select the table with the Sector info.

NOTE: the Cell ID has to be the same as the one used in the Neighbour file!

Then select “MyNeighbour Settings Open Neighbour file…” and select the file with the neighbour relationships.

Once this has been done, if we click on a UMTS sector we will see all its neighbours highlighted with an arrow pointing to them.

Add / Delete Neighbour relationships

To add o delete a relationship we click on the “+” icon and then if we want to add we press “CTRL”, if we want to delete we press “SHIFT”, and finally we click on the GSM cell to add/delete from our serving cell.

Exporting file with changes

Finally to export the file with the list of changes we go to “My NeighbourSettingsExport Neighbour list”.

NOTE: If something fails during the process (Sector table not opened when it should, Neighbour file still open on excel when we try to open it, etc…) the macro will close itself. In that case what we recommend is to close the tables “MySettings” and “ChangeRequest” (FileClose Table) and then open again the macro.