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Manuel, thanks for this awesome tool :)
I cloned the repo to start making some contributions but was stumped for a bit about how to get it running without a FontAwesome subscription. I played around a bit and got something working, which I have pushed to a branch on my fork (link). Ideally this would be documented/stored in a better way - do you have thoughts on how to share these changes in a more discoverable way that won't get out of date?

Grüezi!

It would be great to have the following in the summit pop-up / info page:

• An extra field or hoover tip with the bonus point validity period,
  
• A direct link to the association's rules page.

Vielen Dank!

When filtering the map view by "not activated by", instead of completely hiding the already activated summits, show them discretely with an empty dotted circle or other faint marker.

This would be useful for easier map interpretation and for identifying re-activation opportunities of nearby summits when planning an activation trip. Particularly useful when the callsign has activated a number of summits in a year causing an area of the map to become quite empty.

And, perhaps the inverse arrangement for the 'Activated By' search option.

Interested to hear what others think, but I have thought this would be useful for some time now.

Searching a region provides a nifty result. Example: "W6/CT". A second search for another region, say "W6/SS" updates the table but the displayed map isn't updated.

For a given frequency band, some summits are much more difficult to activate than other summits. For example, a low-lying peak surrounded in all directions by higher peaks would be much trickier to make VHF contacts on than a summit with high prominence (and better line-of-sight to population areas). I think that adding a filter which allows potential activators to e.g. only look at peaks with a large number of QSOs on the 2 meter band would be helpful for people trying to scout out peaks they can activate with the radios they have. I'm willing to implement the code for this, but as I'm not familiar with the architecture of this repository, I'm hoping for some guidance on how to practically implement this feature.

Rough UI draft:

What I know from skimming the code:

• Map view is at src/views/Map.vue
• Current filter implementations are at src/components/MapFilterControl.vue
  • updateFilter() creates an array of all the activated filters, then applies them using setSummitFilter()
  • setSummitFilter() uses the setFilter() function from mapbox (link) on each of the 5 layers of UI elements for summits: 'summits_circles', 'summits_names', 'summits_activations', 'summits_inactive_circles', and 'summits_inactive_names'
• Each of the layers is specified in an asset file for the map type (e.g. src/assets/openmaptiles.json), which in turn uses data from the "summits" source layer
  • The summit source layer comes from a map server (e.g. for my region https://1.us.map.sotl.as/data/summits.json) which has tiles (e.g. https://1.us.map.sotl.as/data/summits/0/0/0.pbf) which come in PBF format (can be opened with the OSM plugin for QGIS)
  • Viewing the pbf files confirms that data source stores the summit attributes that the current filters are using (e.g. act, points, alt) but not QSO counts
  • I'm assuming the PBF files are generated from the summit csv list (link), which has all the summits but no QSO data. Please correct me if this assumption is wrong
• Looking at src/components/SummitActivations.vue, I see the https://api2.sota.org.uk/api/bandstats/ endpoint has the data we want but is queryable 1 summit at a time. It's infeasible to call out to SOTA for every summit on the page while panning around.
• I poked around the api2 and api-db2 SOTA APIs and didn't find any other endpoints that provide the QSO data for every summit

So, what do you think? Should I reach out to the SOTA folks and convince them to include some QSO data in the summitlist csv, then get that into the map tiles to query just like the other filters? Or is there a better way? If the SOTA admins are worried about increased bandwidth, I think it would still be helpful if the QSO data was combined into 2 groups (HF- and VHF+) as opposed to each individual band.

Hello,

Every time I have a QSO i try to check if activator logged me. You know, sometimes QSO is really hard and I not sure that it was everything ok.

If there would appear some kind of star or tick next to the "My chases" positions it will be very nice. I think everybody will have more fun with this.

What do you think? It is possible to add such as this feature?

73

I noticed this today when trying to delete alerts in an area with very weak cell service. In those conditions, the site throws an error that says

Could not delete spot: Network Error

Looks like

Hi Manuel

When planning routes using the Sotlas LineString map tool, I have often thought it would helpful if the popup altitude graph displayed cumulative total ascent/descent figures. I wonder if it could be easily added? I attach a mock up example.

Thanks

Hi Manuel.

Please see this page: https://reflector.sota.org.uk/t/national-mapping-viewers/25232

Similar to our recent discussion around Bing maps for the UK, the SOTA team have added a number of additional map viewer links to summit pages, such as http://kortasja.lmi.is for TF (Iceland).

I thought it would be nice to incorporate these additional country-specific map links to the SOTL.AS website too.

Thanks
Richard M1HAX

Add the following official Austrian maps to "Map Options" as additional "map type" (like openmaptiles, swisstopo, norkart, ...)

• https://maps.bev.gv.at/
• https://basemap.at/bmapp/index.html

New feature suggestion -- for summits which have been activated, add a 'Most Activations' line on the summit page underneath the 'First Activation' line. For example:

Most activations: 1543 by M1EYP

Is it possible to filter the map to hide summits not currently valid (e.g. deleted summits)? I've had a good search through the settings, am I missing something?

Hi Manuel

On the activator profile pages would it be possible to include links to other call book websites like QRZCQ.com and HamQTH.com in addition to QRZ ?

Thanks for the great website.

73

Please add a 'Bing Maps (OS)' link to the 'Open' drop down menu on summit pages in the UK regions. Microsoft has a licence to use the high detail Ordnance Survey maps on its site. The OS Maps site that is currently linked requires a paid subscription to view these same map views. Here is a sample URL for a Bing Maps view of GW/MW-025:

https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=52.09156~-3.2348&lvl=15&style=s&v=2

Compared with the (free) view of the same location on the OS Maps website at https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/52.09156,-3.23480,15/pin the Bing map is clearly better!