As a beginner when I am chasing / hunting SOTA / POTA it is not always clear to me where a summit or park is located and it gets a bit tedious after a while to open up the various references into maps etc. While those maps are really great it would be extra great to plot all activations on a global map to see all the activity.
It pulls SOTA and POTA data and plots it on the map. There are some extra features as well like being able to log QSOs and export an ADI out of that, but that was just me playing around and see what was possible to do. You can click on the “cards” in the recent spots and it will zoom in and show you the details on the map. And there are some filters available if you want to see a subset of the spots.
I hope you find this somewhat interesting and if you notice that something is broken let me know
If going forward it can display POTA spots as far back as 24hrs it will be a great improvement over what’s already out there. I see it has the option on the drop down menu but on my computer it is only displaying currently active spots.
I’d like a map that shows me where SOTA and POTA overlap. This site shows all the things in the UK, but it only puts a dot for a POTA, when it’s actually an area. I picked a POTA at random and found Glas Maol, GM/ES-012, is within it, by looking at the park’s map.
I swear 90% of API doc requests for SOTA describing the new project are answered with “Have you heard about XX?” and the response back being “No, that does what I need. Thanks”
It’s been several months since I checked it out, but I know hammap.io was a project with that goal in mind. The data out of the US was extremely limited at that time so I haven’t checked back recently. The map successfully displays the summit locations and the pins for the POTA parks, but didn’t have the GIS data to map out the park boundaries.
Unfortunately POTA only provide their data as points, and don’t provide areas. But on the map you linked, if you turn on the SSSI layer (icon on top right to access layers) you’ll see boundary for the park you mentioned. Having all layers on by default gets a bit overwhelming, both for your eyes and your computer’s memory hence needing option to toggle them on and off.
Also, if you turn on National Park and Scenic Area layers, looks like that summit you picked is also in GB-0836 and GB-0866.
hence needing option to toggle them on and off.