Nerd Challenge - Google TP map !

Hi Tim - You may recall that I proposed creating an IGC XML format for
TPs a number of years ago. The IGC committee response was approximately
"This new-fangled XML stuff might not catch on and is kinda
complicated"... Remember ? What the IGC put forward for TP
representations, quite a bit later, is too many different possible
representations, none of which solved adequately the problems we see as
manufacturers. Result ? Nobody uses it....

John Leibacher is real busy at the moment ! I'm sure if someone comes
up with a WSDL to expose the list of areas, and another to grab the
requisite info, John or some volunteer could get this up on his site
using the PERL tools for SOAP. Dummy it up as proof of concept in any
case !

Ultimately this supports the vision of "Turn your glider on, and it
automatically fetches the requisite info for your flight: TPs, landing
sites, TFRs/airspace info, maybe initial weather.

Gotta get to work now !
And I still haven't got packed for Uvalde...
Best Regards, Dave "YO"

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Hi Tim - You may recall that I proposed creating an IGC XML format for
TPs a number of years ago. The IGC committee response was approximately
"This new-fangled XML stuff might not catch on and is kinda
complicated"... Remember ? What the IGC put forward for TP
representations, quite a bit later, is too many different possible
representations, none of which solved adequately the problems we see as
manufacturers. Result ? Nobody uses it....

John Leibacher is real busy at the moment ! I'm sure if someone comes
up with a WSDL to expose the list of areas, and another to grab the
requisite info, John or some volunteer could get this up on his site
using the PERL tools for SOAP. Dummy it up as proof of concept in any
case !

Ultimately this supports the vision of "Turn your glider on, and it
automatically fetches the requisite info for your flight: TPs, landing
sites, TFRs/airspace info, maybe initial weather.

Gotta get to work now !
And I still haven't got packed for Uvalde...
Best Regards, Dave "YO"

To those who are interested in the IGC Waypoint format, the documents to
read are available at:

http://www.fai.org/gliding/gnss/wpformat.asp

Tim Newport-Peace

"Indecision is the Key to Flexibility."

Tim Newport-Peace ] wrote:

To those who are interested in the IGC Waypoint format, the documents to
read are available at:

http://www.fai.org/gliding/gnss/wpformat.asp

Tim Newport-Peace


I just wonder if there is any software other than GPS_LOG WinCE that
actually supports this "standard"

Henryk Birecki

wrote:
John Leibacher is real busy at the moment ! I'm sure if someone comes
up with a WSDL to expose the list of areas, and another to grab the
requisite info, John or some volunteer could get this up on his site
using the PERL tools for SOAP. Dummy it up as proof of concept in any
case !

WSDL, yeech!

I'll let y'all in on a little secret, try accessing a URL in the form:

http://soaring.aerobatics.ws/TP/soaring site/tab
http://soaring.gahsys.com/TP/soaring site/tab
http://soaring.xinqu.net/TP/soaring site/tab

For example:

http://soaring.aerobatics.ws/TP/Williams/tab

Not XML, but a trivial parsing exercise for *real* programmers (hint,
field delimiter is the tab character).

I suspect if someone asks nicely, John will expose a list of the
available soaring sites, if it isn't already available at an as of yet
unknown URL...

Marc

Yeech ? Really now, its not like anyone suggested UDDI...
So Marc, are you man enough to take up the challenge ?