Track Vendée Globe progress on Windy.com
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@fogmachine
Hi, the UTC time seems correct for me, but the date is in French despite I've selected English. Are date and time linked to the user location? UTC time should be independent from location.
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@idefix37 What time zone are you in?
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@fogmachine
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your plugin gets better and better. thanks for that, @kbsali.
any chance you can display the course and relative position of the course record of Armel Le Cleac'h in 2016/2017 and maybe even the one of François Gabart in 2012/2013?
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@kbsali With Firefox the report time is still not right in v1.2.4 - maybe it's due to
formattedDatetime = "".concat(reportDatetime.toLocaleTimeString(undefined, dtOptions));which isn't converting from
timeZone: "Europe/Paris",to UTC. With Safari it's note working at all, reporting "Invalid Date UTC" - this might be because I didn't allow windy location access.
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@fogmachine thanks for helping it out this! :)
I'll have a look into it over the weekend, but you are correct the timezone seems to be incorrect and depends on your browser's setting. I do not think not allowing to share your location causes the bug though. -
Either regadata or windy is having trouble drawing the Squid routing across the anti-meridian. You're in good company - qtVLM, OpenCPN, and some of the routing sw onboard the current VG racers have also had problems here.
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@fogmachine
This issue with antimeridian is well know on Windy.https://community.windy.com/topic/7505/bug-with-displaying-track-round-the-world/2?_=1608467580801
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@idefix37 thx - those posts suggest that it can be fixed in the plugin by breaking lines crossing the anti-meridian into two segments. Maybe @kbsali can look into that; but since this is relatively easy for lines but more difficult for other shapes perhaps @ivo has another idea.
With other packages I've been able to either change the longitude range from [-180, 180] to [0, 360] or extend the range (wrapping over the anti-meridian) to [-360, 360]. These eliminate the discontinuity at the anti-meridian but I don't know if Windy's API allow either of these methods.
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@fogmachine
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hi @fogmachine,
thanks for the hint. I was proposed the same solution by the routing provider, but I haven't had the time to work on it just yet. I'll do this ASAP, it will affect the boats markers/lines & routing tracks starting tomorrow I believe.
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@kbsali I like the update, but it's not quite what we're after. Is the source on github somewhere? I found only the version from the last edition.
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MUCH better then the official tracking! thanx guys! /markus
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Nothing to do with the Vendée Globe race, Gitana 17, a flying trimaran 32m (104ft) long, took a second start yesterday in an attempt to beat the record for sailing around the world. The weather briefing was presented by Marcel van Triest, the Gitana router, using Wind and Waves forecast on Windy.
http://www.gitana-team.com/en/article.aspx?id=1269
Unfortunately as @kbsali said, they are not willing to share their position data to allow using it with the Windy tracking plugin.
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WMO (World Meteorological Organization) says thank you
to all the Vendée Globe skippers for Sailing for Science.
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Hi, is somebody generating a tracker plugin for the vendee globe 2024?? Pleeaaassseee.
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@Pichulonco
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@idefix37
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Hello there will be an update for 2024 ? best regards
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Hey @Mahieu-hugo
We would love to, but organizers seem to have no interest in collaboration. We haven't received any answer from them. We are open to collaborating with any yacht races, but it's necessary that they are open, too.
https://community.windy.com/topic/37370/2024-vendee-globe-yacht-tracking/6
David Polášek
Marketing Director at Windy.com
