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Bug fixes and map page banner
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modify it however you like, you can claim you wrote it and charge people £1000 for a copy, I don't really mind.
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(Please don't do the last one. But if you're using my code for something cool, it would be nice to hear from
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you!)</p>
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<h2 class="mt-4">Data Accuracy</h2>
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<h2 id="accuracy" class="mt-4">Data Accuracy</h2>
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<p>Please note that the data coming out of Spothole is only as good as the data going in. People mis-hear and make
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typos when spotting callsigns all the time. There are also plenty of cases where Spothole's data, particularly
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location data, may be inaccurate. For example, there are POTA parks that span multiple US states, countries that
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span multiple CQ zones, portable operators with no requirement to sign /P, etc. If you are doing something where
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accuracy is important, such as contesting, you should not rely on Spothole's data to fill in any gaps in your
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log.</p>
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<p>In the Spothole user interface, under "Your Data", you can enter your credentials for QRZ.com and/or HamQTH if
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you have them. This allows Spothole to augment its data with lookups from these services. See the following
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section, Privacy, for details of how these are handled. If you are looking at the map and see lots of spots in
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the geographic centre of countries, allowing these lookups will help. For QRZ.com a paid account is required to
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look up operator locations.</p>
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<p>IOTA in particular causes a mapping problem, firstly that there is no official set of geodata beyond the names of
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islands. We also have no way of telling whether priority should be given to IOTA reference or e.g. QRZ lookup,
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for example for a G callsign in EU-005 Great Britain the QRZ home address is probably more accurate, but in
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EU-002 Aaland islands, it's more likely a DXpedition and the IOTA would be more accurate.</p>
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<h2 id="privacy" class="mt-4">Privacy</h2>
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<p>Spothole collects no data about you on a permanent basis. All spots and alerts are "timed out" and deleted from
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the system after a set interval, which by default is one hour for spots and one week for alerts.</p>
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