UK Portable Ham Map

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This provides a simple map with many GB/NI land designations (e.g. SSSI, National Nature Reserves) with Parks on the Air® (POTA), World Wide Flora and Fauna (WWFF), Summits on the Air (SOTA), HuMPs Excluding Marilyns Award (HEMA), UK Bunkers on the Air (UKBOTA), and Work All Britain (WAB) Trig Points references overlaid to help with planning activities and identifying the correct boundaries.

It also includes an overlay for OSGB, Irish and Channel Islands MGRS squares for Work All Britain (WAB) Squares Award.

The map must be zoomed into a minimum level for data to appear. Also, by default, larger layers such as AONB and SSSI are disabled due to their larger size impacting performance and cluttering the display, but can be toggled on by the layer controls (top right).

Currently limited to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland, for many of boundary layers, but includes Channel Islands and Isle of Man applicable programmes.

Thanks

This map brings together work from many others, which I thank for their support and sharing their information.

Thanks to Natural England, NatureScot, Natural Resources Wales, Forestry Commission, and RSPB for providing GIS services to access their data. Also Northern Ireland Environment Agency for providing data for providing similar data via files.

Thanks to Ordnance Survey, OpenStreetMap, OpenTopoMap, and Bing Maps for providing base mapping services.

Thanks to POTA and SOTA programmes for providing APIs to directly access programme references.

Thanks to help from Mario DL4MFM and CQGMA for helping providing access to WWFF references map data.

Thanks to support from Carl M0ICR and UKBOTA programme for UKBOTA references.

Thanks to Ed DD5LP and Rob G7LAS for suggestion and providing data for HEMA programme.

Thanks to Fraser MM0EFI for the suggestion, and Ordnance Survey and TrigpointingUK for trig point references.

Thanks to Rich M7GET for the suggestion, and support from Jim M0ZAH and ETCC UK repeaters for providing data for UK repeaters.

Thanks to Peter G4MJS for suggestion on adding National Trails and Coast Paths.

And thanks to all those that manage, run and support the various portable programmes mentioned above, that make portable radio so much more rewarding.

License

Copyright (C) 2023-2024 Steven Hiscocks (M1SDH)

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted under the 2-Clause BSD License.