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21 lines
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HTML
{% extends "help_page.html" %}
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{% block help_content %}
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<h2 class="mt-4 mb-4">About Spothole</h2>
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<p>Spothole is a utility to aggregate "spots" from amateur radio DX clusters and xOTA spotting sites, and provide an
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open JSON API as well as a website to browse the data.</p>
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<p>While there are several other web-based interfaces to DX clusters, and sites that aggregate spots from various
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outdoor activity programmes for amateur radio, Spothole differentiates itself by supporting a larger number of
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data sources, and by being "API first" rather than just providing a web front-end. This allows other software to
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be built on top of it.</p>
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<p>The API is deliberately well-defined with an <a href="/apidocs/openapi.yml">OpenAPI specification</a> and <a
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href="/apidocs">API documentation</a>. The API delivers spots in a consistent format regardless of the data
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source, freeing developers from needing to know how each individual data source presents its data.</p>
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<p>Spothole itself is also open source, Public Domain licenced code that anyone can take and modify. <a
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href="https://git.ianrenton.com/ian/spothole/">The source code is here</a>.</p>
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<p>The software was written by <a href="https://ianrenton.com">Ian Renton, MØTRT</a> with code contributions by
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Steven, M1SDH. The full list of thanks due to others can be found at the bottom of this page.</p>
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<p>This server is running Spothole version {{software_version}}.</p>
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{% end %}
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