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Gliding competition analysis

PySoar

PySoar automates the analysis of glider competitions. It starts with a Soaring Spot URL and delivers a spreadsheet as output.

A screenshot of the program:

An example analysis is provided for this competition day:

Stand alone versions

Stand alone versions for Windows, Mac and Linux are available under releases.

Apart from Excel/Open Office for viewing the spreadsheet, no extra software is needed.

Limitations

The following limitations are (currently) in place:

• no restart after 1st turnpoint
• no penalties for missing turnpoints -> outlanding
• no multiple start points

Development

For development, the following steps need to be taken:

1. Install python requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Building an executable

This chapter explains how to create a pysoar executable

Note: it is important to use the system python3.7

• running inside virtualenv causes wxpython issues
• running python3.8 causes PyInstaller issues

Mac OS

• inside PySoar folder: pip3.6 install -r requirements.txt
• PYGEODESY_PATH=$(python3.6 -c "import pygeodesy; print(pygeodesy.__path__[0])")
• pyinstaller --windowed --paths=$PYGEODESY_PATH main_pysoar.py

Windows

• inside PySoar folder: pip install -r requirements.txt
• python3.6 -c "import pygeodesy; print(pygeodesy.__path__[0])"
• pyinstaller --windowed --onefile --paths=[INSERT_RESULT_PREVIOUS_LINE_HERE] main_pysoar.py

License

PySoar - Automating gliding competition analysis	Copyright (C) 2016  Matthijs Beekman

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>

You can find the full license text in the LICENSE file.