Dear all,
I’ve just designed a little app to locate activators on a map, based on sotwatch alerts page.
Some of you may find it useful…
73,
Phil / F5RHY.
In reply to F5RHY:
Very cool…THANKS!
I would also love it if someone made an app that could overlay all sota peaks on a google map all at once so that it would be easier to plan activations while on trips.
If I could then overlay driving directions I could see if any peaks were close to my trip.
While the SOTA website will make a list of close peaks to any city, if we had an app that put all sota peaks on a google map at once, it would be very easy to find mountains that had nearby road access…
73 & thanks again,
Tom-N2YTF
Very good Phil.
I like the feature to select a future date and look at the spread of activation alerts.
I hope that maps for 2nd and 3rd May start to “fill up” now with alerts for International SOTA Weekend.
Tom M1EYP
In reply to DL0QW:
Hello,
Mario (DL0QW), following your request, the service has been renamed to sota view. New URL is http://sotaview.optexis.net/
A redirection has been set up from the old one to the new one
Phil, F5RHY.
I justed tested it for tomorrow (Sunday 29th) but don’t see all alerts on the map, just three of them.
In reply to M1EYP:
I see all 4 valid ones. Zoom in a bit Tom, the DM/SX ones are close together.
Very nice indeed Phil, Bravo!
73 Marc G0AZS
I realise why I couldn’t see INK’s on there now - he didn’t specify a particular SOTA reference.
Tom
In reply to F5RHY:
Hi Phil
Excellent ! - very useful map - what a good idea
73 es mci bcp
Graham G3OHC
In reply to F5RHY:
Great idea Phil, many thanks!
73
Roger MW0IDX
In reply to N2YTF:
I may be missing the point that you make but all the sota summits are available as a .kml file that you can import into your own copy of Google Earth.
It was last updated in Jan this year by Martyn M1MAJ, so I presume it is a ‘live’ file.
You can find it (and lots of useful stuff) in the files section of the old Yahoo reflector.
http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/IPXNSZewl6xA95SA1joSUnvYiWsNAOgri1Fi2TscX4M9xwqDmfSjRxu9mfa6X21zKCjmnBlK71oasxNwHUf6VLh0AfOEjzFe/Maps/summits.kml
Edit: Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos is a shorter link to the whole files section.
All the best, Dick.
In reply to F5RHY:
Congrats Philippe, fine job !
If you want to change job, you can ring at the door of Bill Gates.
73 QRO,
André F5AKL
In reply to M0EIQ:
Thanks Dick, I did not know that was there.
It took me a day or two to get my Google Earth running again (video driver problems), but now it is up with the SOTA file…fantastic.
Thanks & 73,
Tom-N2YTF