ZL On the Air

PoLo - Issues & Ideas
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Hi Team,

In New Zealand our local site ZL on the Air is very popular. While we do still do POTA / SOTA etc there are far more parks in ZL on the Air. Is this something PoLo would consider adding as an operation type?

If so, what data is needed and in what format? I am happy to work with the ZL on the Air team to get the GIS data and get it into the right format.

Keen to help.

Cheers,

Chris
ZL1UCH or for the last week, VK/ZL1UCH :smiley:

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Hi Chris,
Firstly thanks for the P2P yesterday.
As far as programs are concerned, @M1SDH / Steve is the master of adding programs.
It’s reasonably simple dependent on his availability.
You need a downloadable (always available) resource in csv file format for the activation locations similar to the POTA csv download
https://pota.app/all_parks_ext.csv
or this for Silos in VK:

ID,LAT,LNG,ARTY,NAME,LOCALITY,STATE,COUNTRY,SILO_CODE,RAILWAY,RAIL_STATUS,NOT_BEFORE,NOT_AFTER,TOTAL_ACTIVATIONS,COMMENT,LINK,LGA_CODE,LOCATOR,RATING,STREET_VIEW,PARK
1554,-32.169081,150.892421,false,Aberdeen,Aberdeen,New South Wales,Australia,VK-ABN2,Hunter Line,Operational,2021-03-27T11:17:02Z,,1,,"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen,_New_South_Wales",UH2,QF57kt,Interesting,"https://www.google.com/maps/@?api=1&map_action=pano&viewpoint=-32.169137,150.892156&heading=76&pitch=38&fov=120&calc",

Then Steve can weave his magic
Alan

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Thanks Alan. Sounds promising… ZL-OTA has all the data in a GIS server running a WFS so it would be pretty easy for me to write a WFS client to regularly extract to the correct format. I’ve reached out to ZLOTA to check they have no objections before i do anything.