[OhQP-mail] Update to Planned Operations Page...
Hank Greeb
n8xx at arrl.org
Sun Jul 31 23:15:16 EDT 2011
Geepers, I didn't want to create such a fuss when I mentioned that I
thought a "planned operations map" would be a nice feature, one which
I'd find useful, for the OHQP. My choice of "state of the art" was that
of a neophyte in web/html design. This was NOT meant to be a negative
criticism of the FB work which is done by our very competent webmaster,
K9TM
So, I don't apologize for bringing up the subject, but if anyone took my
comments as a criticism of the work being done by our webmaster, I
apologize for my choice of words.
Keep up the FB job, Tim, FB OM! & Tnx 4 the nice map on the planned
operations page.
73 de n8xx Hg
Operating as N1L/BROW for OHQP 2011
On 7/31/2011 3:23 PM, K9TM wrote:
>
> There was a note string earlier this week that I found curious as it
> challenged that the OhQP web site is somehow not close to "state of
> the art" because a map of planned operations was not available. After
> looking at the cited examples from the note string, I found that the
> examples were what I would term static maps. They were created by
> humans by hand and posted into web pages by humans... all by hand and
> at the timing and discretion of a human. I had provided a similar map
> product in 2009 for OhQP but found it too time consuming to be
> practical for the time I have available.
>
> The OhQP web page is one of the only QSO Party web pages I could find
> that allows the planned operations information to be dynamically
> collected and available without human intervention to generate the web
> pages. I don't want to belittle any other QP's efforts (we're all
> doing our best with what we have) but I think that automatic pages are
> more "state of the art" than manual pages. If any other QP folks are
> tuning in, I'm happy to share how to do this to help your QP if you
> are interested (it's a huge time saver!).
>
> I was only able to find one other QP (other than OhQP/MiQP) that had
> the ability to collect info and publish it in a table without human
> intervention. I was not able to find a single QP that had the ability
> to collect info and publish it in map form without human
> intervention... until now! I have done some work over the weekend and
> now the OhQP planned operations page also includes a map with the
> counties colored in depending on if there is a planned operation or not.
>
> In the future other things can be added to the map but for now I have
> other items to work on to keep the OhQP/MiQP moving and will not be
> able to add additional features to the map until next year.
>
> I've altered the existing 2011 Plans page to include the map at the
> bottom of the page.
>
> Hope the addition of the map helps in planning your operation for OhQP.
>
> 73, Tim K9TM
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