The OLC is a great project and has done great things for gliding, but it costs us all money (paid for you by the GFA), and in return not a lot of flexibility nor new features have been developed.
Skylines is an open source, community project, it costs no money to use, and anyone interested can join the project. Some innovative features this environment has produced already are: Compare multiple flights together: http://skylines.xcsoar.org/flights/4786,3399,4790,4789,4788,4787/ Live tracking - have your flight uploaded, scored and visible to your friends and family *as you fly it* Some potential features we've been talking about: Social networking (leave comments and ask questions about flights) Automatically generated thermal maps from flights throughout the world More advanced flight analysis, (like seeyou) Setup your own contests and have them scored automatically as pilots upload their flights. and much, much more. What you see at the moment is a very early beta, a result of just a couple of months of active development. It has many gaps at the moment, but you can help out for now by uploading your old and new flights to Skylines and by submitting feature ideas and bug reports. -Matthew On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Pam Kurstjens <[email protected]> wrote: > Why would we need an alternative? I think there is great strength and > interest having worldwide flights in one place. > If you would like to see an alternative system, check out the BGA Ladder in > the UK: http://www.bgaladder.co.uk and click on 'daily scores' for example. > Yesterday, 39 flights in the UK were posted to this site, and only 5 of > those were posted to OLC. > People are regularly doing 750's and the rare 1000, which are incredible > flights given the size of the island, the airspace, and the weather, yet we > see few flights on the OLC so gliding in the UK goes largely unnoticed by > the worldwide gliding community. > Pam > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter F > Bradshaw > Sent: Monday, 2 July 2012 9:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Aus-soaring] Alternative to the OLC > > Hi; > > There is an alternative to the OLC at: > > http://skylines.xcsoar.org/ > > IGC files may be uploaded and scored here. In addition it is planned to > implement a realtime tracking feature in conjunction with XCSoar (v6.4). > > Cheers > > -- > Peter F Bradshaw: http://www.exadios.com (public keys avaliable there). > Personal site: http://personal.exadios.com "I love truth, and the way the > government still uses it occasionally to keep us guessing." - Sam Kekovich. > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
