Online GPS track log viewer
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I thought it might be useful in showing the paths and heights of one or more aircraft and being able to scroll around the tracks, viewing from different angles.
If terrain were also enabled, the view available to each pilot may be better understood.
I thought it might be useful in showing the paths and heights of one or more aircraft and being able to scroll around the tracks, viewing from different angles.
If terrain were also enabled, the view available to each pilot may be better understood.
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Dave, I've got it working now with G7toWin! I have to say, the track displays are fabulous - what an excelletn site you have given us all!!! Congratulations!
Wishlist: I would like to be able to share tracks with friends, not necessarily pilots but more typically passengers (friends and family) who wouldn't necessarily want to have to login to your website: is there a way to share a tracklog such as http://www.goflying.org/nav/tracklog...gId=8020312227 with a URL like this? It seems this gives an error if not logged in.
Andy
Wishlist: I would like to be able to share tracks with friends, not necessarily pilots but more typically passengers (friends and family) who wouldn't necessarily want to have to login to your website: is there a way to share a tracklog such as http://www.goflying.org/nav/tracklog...gId=8020312227 with a URL like this? It seems this gives an error if not logged in.
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Hi Andy,
Thanks for your kind comments!
You can share track logs by going to the "manage logs" page and selecting shared or public from the drop-down box. You've already done that for the log you mention, so it should be working - it does for me. If it isn't, can you tell me what time you tried to view the page so I can take a look at the server logs?
You can see a list of the files you've shared on your "user homepage", which will be at http://www.goflying.org/users/<yourusername>/homepage.htm
Thanks for your kind comments!
You can share track logs by going to the "manage logs" page and selecting shared or public from the drop-down box. You've already done that for the log you mention, so it should be working - it does for me. If it isn't, can you tell me what time you tried to view the page so I can take a look at the server logs?
You can see a list of the files you've shared on your "user homepage", which will be at http://www.goflying.org/users/<yourusername>/homepage.htm
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There you go! Working now :-) It was around midnight last night (sad, eh!?)
It would be intresting to learn what your plans for the service are, e.g. could you partner with someone like Navbox.nl to enable flightplans generated in their excellent software (which has airspace etc) to be uploaded to your system so one could do the detailed planning before leaving home, then for away-trips access the same plans via your website to use / amend when and as required? Better than taking a laptop with you!
And are you able to extend the coverage into France and the rest of the continent? I'd imagine the hard part would be getting and entering all the waypoint data for navaids, airfields etc and keeping it current - but again maybe if you partnered with someone who's already keeping that sort of database up-to-date.
You might have to charge for this! To benchmark it, the US website http://www.aeroplanner.com/ provides a similar service which I use when flying in the US (more aeronautical data as they have scans of all the US charts and full database) - for their basic service they charge US$49.95 / year or $4.95 / month. They do more than your sight does but it gives you an idea. They don't let you view your track logs online though!
Andy
It would be intresting to learn what your plans for the service are, e.g. could you partner with someone like Navbox.nl to enable flightplans generated in their excellent software (which has airspace etc) to be uploaded to your system so one could do the detailed planning before leaving home, then for away-trips access the same plans via your website to use / amend when and as required? Better than taking a laptop with you!
And are you able to extend the coverage into France and the rest of the continent? I'd imagine the hard part would be getting and entering all the waypoint data for navaids, airfields etc and keeping it current - but again maybe if you partnered with someone who's already keeping that sort of database up-to-date.
You might have to charge for this! To benchmark it, the US website http://www.aeroplanner.com/ provides a similar service which I use when flying in the US (more aeronautical data as they have scans of all the US charts and full database) - for their basic service they charge US$49.95 / year or $4.95 / month. They do more than your sight does but it gives you an idea. They don't let you view your track logs online though!
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Hi Andy,
I haven't decided what I'm going to do with the site next, although I do have some more ideas for the log viewer.
The planner and log viewer were always intended to be free features, and because I'm using Google Maps I couldn't charge for them anyway! That does slightly limit how much time I can put into them.
I hope to provide coverage extending into Europe later on, but won't really seriously look into it until Google have done the same. I'll think about your Navbox idea and see if that's possible.
I haven't decided what I'm going to do with the site next, although I do have some more ideas for the log viewer.
The planner and log viewer were always intended to be free features, and because I'm using Google Maps I couldn't charge for them anyway! That does slightly limit how much time I can put into them.
I hope to provide coverage extending into Europe later on, but won't really seriously look into it until Google have done the same. I'll think about your Navbox idea and see if that's possible.
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I don't plan to add airspace in the near future because that would need a lot of maintenance to be kept completely accurate.
The maps either have to have all the features a CAA chart does, and be kept right up to date, or have none of the features so it can't be confused for a complete flight planning solution.
I've opted for the latter, and made it free. I hope that doesn't reduce its usefulness too much!
The maps either have to have all the features a CAA chart does, and be kept right up to date, or have none of the features so it can't be confused for a complete flight planning solution.
I've opted for the latter, and made it free. I hope that doesn't reduce its usefulness too much!
