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Browse SOTA Positions
The 'VK Callbook Mapper' programme includes a list of nearly 5,000 Australian 'Summits On The Air' entries that can be browsed directly through the 'Browse Tables > Browse SOTA Positions' command, or used as a reference when making other Spatial Queries.
For more information about the 'Summits On The Air' programme and awards, please visit: http://sotadata.org.uk (Link will open in your Browser).
SOTA Positions can be plotted directly on to the Online and Overlay Maps by right-clicking an entry and choosing 'Show on Map' from the context-menu. Once an entry has been plotted on a map, its position can then be used for a variety of Spatial Queries, where the entry's position is used as the centre-point for a table-search.
Although you can choose the individual type of marker used to mark a SOTA entity on the map by clicking 'Help > Options > POI Markers > Choose SOTA Marker-Type', the SOTA markers do not have their own layer over the maps, but rather are added to the collective POI Layer, which also contains markers for IOTA, Shires, ARLHS, WLOTA, and WWFF. You can hide or clear this layer by clicking 'Markers > Hide POI Markers' or 'Markers > Clear POI Markers', but the action you perform will also be performed on all other existing POI Markers.
Assuming that you have entered your QTH's latitude and longitude position by clicking 'Help > Options > Mapping > User Details', you can then perform a 'User Spatial Query' on the table data by right-clicking any table line and choosing 'User Spatial Query'. What this command does is to order the complete table by distance from your User-location. You can thus discover the entries that are the closest to you, and those farthest way. A 'Bearing' column is also added to the table, that shows the short-path bearing from your User-location. If you wish, you can order the table by bearing simply by clicking that column's header. Note that making Spatial Queries does not alter the data in the databases in any way.
Another option in the context-menu shown when you right-click a line is 'Row Spatial Query'. What this command does is to order the complete table by distance from the location of the entry in the row that you clicked on. You can thus discover the entries that are the closest to that particular line-value, and those that are farthest way. A 'Bearing' column is also added to the table, as before.
If you wish to use a SOTA value elsewhere, then right-click the line and choose 'Copy to Clipboard'. The relevant line is then copied to the system-clipboard, and you can utilise the data by Pasting in 'All Programs > Accessories > Notepad' or any other programme that accepts copied text.