SeeYou
Scoring, the easy way
Submitted by Davis Straub on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 05:10.Scoring, the easy way -
One of the big problems with competition is having someone to do the scoring. You need a geeky guy who knows how to use the GPS download and scoring programs. These skills are in relatively short supply, and certainly almost none of the pilots want to have these skills. Also downloading GPSes is a big pain in the butt. You have to deal with these clueless hang glider pilots who are demanding of your time. It takes a few hours. You have to have a computer with a bunch of ports. In the last year I've scored a number of hang glider contests while also flying in the contests. I've used my SeeYou based scoring program (using the OzGAP 2005 formulation) and I've used FS, the new scoring program from CIVL. At the Santa Cruz Flats Race I had the meet director, Jamie Shelden, do the GPS downloads. I took about five minutes to teach her how to download the GPSes, two at a time (as there were only two ports on my five year old Dell Inspiron 8100) using GPSDump. I had configured two instances of GPSDump to download from two separate com ports. You can run as many instances of GPSDump as you have com ports and download as many GPSes at once as you have com ports.
Santa Cruz tracklogs are up
Submitted by Davis Straub on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 13:36.The IGC tracklog files are up at Soaring Spot.
Just see any of the days' results and click on the pilot's number to download the IGC file.
FS and SeeYou on distance calculations
Submitted by Davis Straub on Tue, 04/29/2008 - 19:12.FS and SeeYou on distance calculations -
I scored a couple of meets in Australia in order to test my SeeYou scoring system against the FS scoring system. I was able to squash a couple of bugs in each program using these comparisons.
CIVL scoring meet software
Submitted by Davis Straub on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 05:14.More open source scoring software.
Oyvind Ellefsen writes:
The new software for scoring, FS, was announced and demoed at the CIVL plenary last week. FS is now at version 1.1 and generally available for download.
The FS system is made to do one thing, and do it well - scoring competitions. It will not have much use for the general pilot. If you want fancy 3D tracklog analysis and task planning I would recommend something like SeeYou or ComepGPS.
