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ZL4NVW posted in ZLOTA - What's New on 2022-05-31
ZL4NVW updated in ZLOTA - What's New on 2022-04-30
ZL4NVW updated in ZLOTA - What's New on 2022-02-19
- Public Access Land map layer
- Links to NZ Alpine Club route descriptions for peaks
SOTA summit activation zones
If you click on a summit on the map, or search for one from the Places menu, the 25-vertical-meter activation zone for the summit will be displayed on the map (in red). This information comes from the 30mx30m digital elevation model provided by the NZ School of Surveying, so the activation zone is displayed in 30mx30m grid squares. Handy to see how far an activation zone extends.
There is now a map layer showing places that have a right of public access. It uses the same colour-coding as the Walking Access Commission's walking access maps:
- Purple for legal roads
- Dark green for DOC
- Light green for council
- Blue to LINZ-owned riverbeds
- DOC tracks are shown as red dashed lines
- DOC roads are shown as red solid lines
This is handy for checking if there is legal access to a summit. Not all legal accesses will be shown - where there is a footpath vested in a covenant or easement, those will not be shown.
When combined with the activation zones data this also allows you to check if a summit can be activated from nearby public access land. For example, the summit of Dunstan ZL3/OT-294 is on private land, but the activation zone extends over the nearby legal road.
NZ Alpine Club route descriptions
Where route descriptions exist, a link to the ClimbNZ page will be shown under 'Links' on the summit's page at ontheair.nz. Click on any summit on the map, or search for one in Places to see the summit's page.
ZL4NVW updated in ZLOTA - What's New on 2022-02-19
ZL4NVW updated in ZLOTA - What's New on 2021-11-26
ZL4NVW posted in ZLOTA - What's New on 2021-11-16
ZL4NVW updated in ZLOTA - What's New on 2021-08-11
ZL4NVW updated in ZLOTA - What's New on 2021-07-21
- Added / updated ~200 qualifying parks run by Auckland Council using park boundaries from the Auckland Unitary Plan.
- Allen has also added the new Auckland parks to Parks N Peaks
- P2P scores are now shown (total of your contacts park-to-park, lake-to-lake, lake-to-summit, summit-to-hut, etc)
- QRP scores - total score for your contacts made when you are operating QRP
- HEMA (humps) and SiOTA (silos) codes are now recognised (and earn you P2P points) when logging contacts with VK operators activating those sites.
ZL4NVW updated in ZLOTA - What's New on 2021-06-24
ZL4NVW updated in ZLOTA - What's New on 2021-06-20
- You can now upload logs from your favourite logging program to the site in ADIF format. One logfile per activation (activators) or per UTC day (chasers) is preferred. Please verify and edit (if necessary) your loads after upload. Find the 'Upload Logs' button under 'My Logs'. Log programs vary - so let me know if there are any issues with uploading from yours.
- Rules and scores have been updated for activators to mirror SOTA / POTA: you can now activate a place once per UTC calendar year and receive points for the activation.
- (Chasers still receive points for chasing a place once per UTC calendar day)
- You can now receive emails of spots and alerts. Enable / disable it under your profile (click on your callsign, top-right)
- We now have some Help and FAQ pages to answer some of the frequently asked questions that have come up in the last few weeks. Find them under ...OnTheAir
- Spotting and Alerting for Lakes has now been implemented by ParksNPeaks. Big thanks to Allen for that.
- SMS spotting is also provided for all of our entities by ParksNPeaks. See our 'Help' page under ...OnTheAir for details
ZL4NVW updated in ZLOTA - What's New on 2021-06-20
- In conjunction with ZL3GA, ZL4RA and ZL3AB, we have added Lakes to the site to support the new revamped NZART Lakeside Award
- Check them out at https://ontheair.nz/assets
- Following user feedback huts, parks and islands are now grouped by Region. You'll see that the codes now look similar to those used by SOTA
- e.g. Ruahine Forest Park ZLP/MW-0001
- Characters with macrons get dropped by Parks N Peaks
- Regional parks are missing from Parks N Peaks list of POTA parks
- We are missing many Auckland Council parks due to the Auckland Council webpage hosting that data being broken
- You can only be logged in from one device at a time. E.g. log in from your PC, then log in from your mobile. Your PC will be logged out of the site when your mobile logs in. If you're in the middle of a log or alert etc on you PC, it will be lost.
- In the map layer switcher you need to scroll down to see the 'Apply' button for polygon layers
- You must register your callsign as issued. Registering using a callsign containing a / to indicate portable or out of region will cause errors (registration with such callsigns will be rejected in future).
- Parksnpeaks.org are adding the NZ Lakes to their database, so you will be able to spot or alert for your lakeside activations at parksnpeaks.org (along with SOTA, POTA, WWFF, Huts, Parks, Islands and the rest!)
- You will soon be able to upload ADIF logs from your favourite logging program to the site
- VK5AYL is kindly adding support for NZ parks, huts, islands and lakes to the parksnpeaks iOS app which will integrate with the ontheair website.
- Details of the app are available at www.vk5ayl.com
- VK3ZPF is hoping to include ZL OnTheAir locations and logging in future releases of VK Port-A-Log.
ZL4NVW updated in ZLOTA - What's New on 2021-06-01
- We are now https://ontheair.nz
- You can now spot or alert your activation of a Hut, Island or Park activity at parksnpeaks.org or at ontheair.nz and your spot/alert will appear on both sites.
- ParksNPeaks is a one-stop-shop for all SOTA, POTA, WWFF and ZL OnTheAir alerts and spots for VK and ZL. Handy!
- Check out spotting and alerting at ontheair.nz in the Spots and Alerts pages
- Just click on Add Contacts on My Contacts page your when viewing a hut, park or island to add your log
- Look under your callsign at the top right for the option to send logs to SOTA, POTA or WWFF
ZL4NVW posted in ZLOTA - What's New on 2020-08-03