Moin Herwig, with your Hauptbedenkenträger on the other side it sounds like you were flying in Braunschweig.
I am not sure if monitoring a bunch of nerdy chaotic unprofessional crazy gliders in an airspace of a considerable size on a small device makes much sense, so I'd think about using a PC with a decent screen for the task. I have, however, never played with the PC version of XCSoar, so I am not sure what it can do. If you just need to remove the small plane icon in the middle, maybe the easiest way to do so would be to replace the icon by a new one that is all transparent or one that looks like a small circle to mark the field location without the rotation being actually visible. Viele Grüße, Martin Kopplow --- Am 08.04.2011 um 11:54 schrieb Herwig Wagner <wagn...@gmx.net>: > Am Donnerstag, den 07.04.2011, 20:39 +0200 schrieb > martin.kopp...@gmx.de: >> Moin Herwig, >> >> are you aware that there already is a PC application which does exaxtly >> this?: Show the Flarm traffic around the device on a PC screen on a Google >> Maps overlay. All you need is a serial connection by means of a standard >> "Loggerauslesekabel". If I dig around a bit, I might even find the >> application's name. >> I've been discussing this with our club last season, but the ever present >> Hauptbedenkenträger argued that it would lead to people responsible only >> looking at the screen, not the sky, and thus not detecting traffic not >> equipped with flarm. >> >> Viele Grüße, >> Martin Kopplow >> --- > > Hi Martin! > > I have been looking arround a little bit as well. i have tested the > Butterfly Flarmviewer looked at http://radar.zhaw.ch/ or found a code > written in visual basic script running in microsoft access that collects > and processes flarm data for a live takeoff and landing time list on the > hompage of the club in hohenems. But there is no true open source code > available as far as i know that just depicts flarm traffic on a screen. > > here at our place the "Hauptbedenkenträger" are the the ones on the > other side of the airfield in the ATC tower. they see of us glider > pilots as a nerdy chaotic unprofessional croud of crazy guys who dare to > fly without engines. we are "uncontrollable" and therefore per se a > danger to almost everybody. ok i might be exaggerateing a bit, but if > they call and after a quick look at the screen you can tell them right > away where everybody is, instead of having to radio and wait for > everyone to report in their estimated positions in various creative ways > would give a faar more professional picture and makes life much easier > für everyone involved. all our gliders here at our place are flarm > equipped anyway. > > instead of trying to invent the wheel again i will try to check if its > possible to somhow implement a switch in xcsoar that switches off the > little plane in the middle of the screen and then one could launch > xcsoar into fullscreen mode automatically via the .xci-File and have > right what we would need. > > > greets Herwig > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Xperia(TM) PLAY > It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming > smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. > And it wants your games. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev > _______________________________________________ > Xcsoar-user mailing list > Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user