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By Fred Wilson
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XC Planner Version 2 http://xcplanner.appspot.com/ upgrades = awesome :thumbsup:

See Page 4 on at: http://www.paraglidingforum.com/viewtop ... 2&start=97

The user guide starts at http://www.paraglidingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=44972
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If you Downloaded it to an Android phone etc. and nothing but a blank screen comes up:
You have to let it use your location. Alternatively, use this link:
(example) http://xcplanner.appspot.com/?c=British+Colombia
Substitute ?c=British+Colombia for wherever you are, replacing spaces with + signs. This way, XC Planner won't ask for your location.

(example = more specific) http://xcplanner.appspot.com/?c=Vernon+British+Colombia
Last edited by Fred Wilson on Wed Oct 31, 2012 5:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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By Fred Wilson
#299168
More toy time.

Tom Payne's Waypoint Planner is also way cool. - an easy way to make waypoints for comps.
http://188.40.246.141/pgtools/waypointplanner/

Instructions at http://www.paraglidingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=34143
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By davisstraub
#299171
No way to import waypoints into XC planner?
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By davisstraub
#299725
Yes, I know about waypoint planner. What I don't know is how to get the waypoints that I can easily upload into waypoint planner into xcplanner.

Can you just tell me how to do this?
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By davisstraub
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davisstraub wrote:
Is it possible to upload waypoints into XCPlanner so that one can plan a route using existing waypoints, like for a competition as in SeeYou?

I am aware that you can do this in Waypointplanner, but I was hoping that you could plan a route in XCPlanner, or have I misunderstood the point of XCPLanner (and Waypointplanner)?
Hi Davis,

This is a good question. The answer is that I'd like to add this to XC Planner, but it turns out that it's a bit more complicated to implement than I expected. It's the same for Bryan's request for automatically closing the circuit above. When you snap to specific points, be they pre-defined turnpoints (in your case) or making the take off the same as the landing (as in Bryan's case), you quickly end up with various degenerate geometries. These cases are possible to handle, but XC Planner doesn't handle them at the moment, which makes adding this functionality quite a bit of extra work.

I have a different project in progress that (if I release it) will be more focused on flying defined tasks and will add a certain "spice" to the current rather tedious XC league format. Right now, I have no plans to add waypoints to XC Planner.

Good question though!

Tom

P.S. XC Planner v2 is currently about 15,000 lines of source code, including some fairly hard core maths, multiple data sources, and some finely-tuned heuristics. XC Planner includes this functionality so that you don't have to think about it.
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By Fred Wilson
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Tom Payne's Waypoint Planner has moved to: http://waypointplanner.appspot.com/
Tom Payne wrote:I'm currently updating this version, but hopefully it should be good enough for the moment.
Instruction Manual etc at: http://www.paraglidingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=34143
bjornart wrote:after making a few points I tried to download them but got the following error: http://waypointplanner.appspot.com/geojson2file
(net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) When I hit back in browser, all waypoints were lost.
tompayne wrote:Ah, pants.
It's because the original Waypoint Planner uses PHP on the server side, but this is not supported by Google App Engine. I thought I'd ported the code to Python for App Engine, but obviously I hadn't.

Please don't use Waypoint Planner until I fix this.