{"id":3168,"date":"2017-02-14T00:22:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T00:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/kb\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=3168"},"modified":"2024-01-18T12:45:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T12:45:22","slug":"nearest-streams-tab","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-streams-tab\/","title":{"rendered":"The NEARest Streams tab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3145\" src=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Tab.png\" alt=\"NEAR_Tab\" width=\"786\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Tab.png 786w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Tab-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Tab-768x505.png 768w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Tab-50x33.png 50w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Tab-600x395.png 600w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NEAR_Tab-320x210.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>NEARest <\/strong>tab is used to view, create, and manage NEAR&#x2122; Base Station style mountPts.\u00a0 This type of stream is made up of other suitable Base Station data streams available in the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> Caster.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The collection of Base stations, referred to as a &#8220;pool,&#8221; are selected according to the criteria which you establish when creating the NEAR mountPt.<\/p>\n<p>In the RTCM \/ NTRIP industry these single baseline streams are often called &#8220;NEAR&#8221; streams and allow a convenient way for any <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/question-what-is-an-ntrip-client\/\">NTRIP Clients<\/a> to connect to a single mountPt at your Caster, periodically send in <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nmea-gga-strings-in-ntrip-clients\/\">NMEA-183 $GGA <\/a>messages as they move, and as a result be automatically directed to the closest suitable Base Station at all times. The general concept of a NEAR mountPt is described further in <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-mountpt-use\/\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Setting up a NEAR stream involves using the the <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-mountpt-dialog\/\">NEARest mountPt Setup dialog<\/a>, which is described in further detail in several knowledge base articles.\u00a0 This dialog is reached by right-clicking on the slot and selecting the <strong>Edit<\/strong> item.\u00a0 For detailed information see the knowledge base articles on:\u00a0 <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-mountpt-regional-settings\/\">Geographical Regional <\/a>settings, on <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-mountpt-stream-contents\/\">Message Stream Content<\/a> controls, and on <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-mountpt-distance-values\/\">Connection Distance<\/a> controls.<\/p>\n<p>To operate a NEAR stream your <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> installation must have registered a <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Basic<\/strong> <\/span>License of better (operation of one NEAR stream is also allowed during the evaluation period). Additional License levels allow additional streams and pool filtering features.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Hint<\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0 The above image shows four active NEAR mountPt streams on a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span> node that has just restarted. The user has hovered the mouse over the &#8220;Pool&#8221; entry for the stream <em>NEAR3_SAE<\/em>.\u00a0 The tool-tip has popped up and is displaying the five Base Stations that make up the pool.\u00a0 [Shown are several Base Stations operated by the Michigan DOT as part of their CORS network; the Not-USED Base Stations are located in other parts of the world]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Hint<\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0 You can also right click and plot the Base Station in the pool on a map in the normal way.\u00a0 Another right-click selection will display the current setup details.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/the-pushed-out-streams-tab-output-data\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-592 size-full\" src=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/agt_back.png\" alt=\"agt_back\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/agt_back.png 64w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/agt_back-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/agt_back-60x60.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/the-pushed-out-streams-tab-output-data\/\">Prior Tab<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/raw-tcpip-streams-tab\/\">Next Tab<\/a> <a href=\"\/kb\/knowledge-base\/raw-tcpip-streams-tab\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-593 size-full\" src=\"\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/agt_forward.png\" alt=\"agt_forward\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/agt_forward.png 64w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/agt_forward-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/agt_forward-60x60.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NEARest tab is used to view, create, and manage NEAR&#x2122; Base Station style mountPts.\u00a0 This type of stream is made up of other suitable Base Station data streams available in the SNIP Caster.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The collection of Base stations, referred to as a &#8220;pool,&#8221; are selected according to the criteria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[284,282],"ht-kb-tag":[292,287,303],"class_list":["post-3168","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-snip-tabs-and-controls","ht_kb_category-nearest-caster","ht_kb_tag-near","ht_kb_tag-nearest","ht_kb_tag-pool"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The NEARest Streams tab - SNIP Support<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/nearest-streams-tab\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The NEARest Streams tab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The NEARest tab is used to view, create, and manage NEAR&#x2122; 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