Finding good ham radio portable spots using OpenstreetMap and Overpass Turbo
Date: August 9, 2021
How to find good spots where you can work from? This is a question you can ask Overpass Turbo from the Openstreetmap project.
So let’s look for:
- Picnic tables
- Benches
- Bad weather shelters
Which results in following query code.
[out:json][timeout:25];
(
node["leisure"="picnic_table"]();
node["picnic_table"="yes"]();
node["tourism"="picnic_site"]();
node["tourism"="shelter"]();
node["tourism"="table"]();
node["tourism"="bench"]();
);
out skel qt;
Thats spits out this nice picture
