Crosscountry.aero

Hi Ramy,

Thanks for your feedback.

There was indeed a problem with the average speed, which is quite
embarrassing! This has now been fixed.

Putting a map on facebook as the link picture presents a problem, as I
am using google maps instead of a custom-rendered height maps as OLC
does. I have created the functionality to draw maps based on height data
as OLC does, but I do not believe is is worth the overhead of loading
all the height data and rendering thumbs, just to show on facebook.

So I propose a compromise: I have now changed the behavior of the like
button and it will display a picture of the pilot. If a pilot has not
uploaded his/her picture, it will show a logo of the site. Which brings
me to another point: please upload your pictures and let's put faces to
the pilots out there! It is quite simple, just go to your logbook and
click on the placeholder pilot image (you have to be logged on to do this).

I will be happy to change the turquoise to some other color that will
work better, if there is a feeling out there that it doesn't work. But
remember, that the contrast should also work well for satellite images
which tend to have darker colors. I have also put a request on the to do
list for users to be able to adjust the color to their own liking (but
this will only work when they are logged in).

Alexander Georgas



This looks very promising! I just easily uploaded all my 2012 flights with one click and at first glance, they seemed to be scored right.
As other commented, being able to easily cross post to OLC, Skylines and Crosscountry is a must to prevent fragmentation of flight data.

few quick comments:
1 - The turquoise trace is hard to read.
2 - The average speed in the pilot stats page is calculated wrong.
3 - When posting to facebook, will be nice to show the trace in the thumbnail similar to OLC, instead of the site logo.

Ramy