The Spotfinder

The wish in your own words

You write what you are looking for – the way you would tell a person: “Windsurfing in November, at least 20 degrees, waves are fine, but 15 knots on half of the days.” The Spotfinder turns that into a search by month, wind strength, share of good days, temperature, waves or flat water, skill and region, and answers with a list of matching spots – the best match first, each with its reason.

If something essential is missing, it asks instead of guessing: which sport (windsurfing, wingfoiling, kiting – or surfing, which the data is not made for), which period, which region. Name a place such as “Fuerte” or “Lake Garda” and it searches there. It answers in the language of the question.

The map as a shared screen

Chat and map know each other. The Spotfinder knows which spot is selected and which spots the map shows – “how is the wind here?” or “which of the visible ones is best in March?” refer to that. In return every answer brings buttons: one for each spot named, “Show all on the map” for a selection and – when a spot meets every wish – the way to booking. The page builds these buttons itself from checked spot keys; the language model writes no links.

Our own data

The basis is our own spot data: more than a hundred spots with position, region, best months, wind directions, water and level, a description per spot in four languages with its sources, and statistics of good days per month over five years – with wind, temperature and waves. All of it is maintained on a page, without a developer.

Open weather data

What is blowing now and what is coming comes from open sources: measuring stations of GeoSphere Austria, the German Weather Service (DWD), ARPA Lombardia and Meteotrentino; forecasts from the ICON-D2 (DWD), AROME (GeoSphere) and MET Norway models; waves from NOAA GFS-Wave; the long-term statistics from NASA POWER or – where a local wind needs it – from a station on the shore. Every source is named with its licence.