Help/Idea for new plugin
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Hi. I would like to ask the Windy community for help in creating a small plugin, as I don’t have the computer skills required to do it by myself. :( Or to let it become an idea for a future plugin.
I'm a paraglider pilot and I use Windy to plan team race flights, depending on the local weather. When we race, I use (as in all official races) a set of pre-established points on the ground, which are call waypoints (see waypoints.gpx file as example). Some of these waypoints are select and a circumference of known radius is establish at each selected waypoint. The winner of the race is the pilot who touches all the established circumferences first, respecting the established order of the waypoints.
At this moment, Windy allows me to upload the waypoints using “Display KML, GPX, …”. But then, nothing can be done with those waypoints... To plan the race flight, it would be interesting to have a plugin that allows the user to choose some of the waypoints (in the image bellow I put the chosen waypoints in orange) and define a circumference around each of them with a radius chosen by the user (in the image I put the circumferences in green). To finish, the plugin would draw the route passing through the center of the circumferences (I put it in blue in the image), and the optimized route for the race (I put it in purple in the image). The optimized route is the one that has the shortest possible length and touches all circumferences in the established order.
Thanks in advance for any contribution you can provide.
Nuno
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I'm Victor, the developer of the "Better Soundings" plugin (and flyxc.app).
I agree it would be a good idea. Do you know about taskvault.net? It's a waypoint/task repository developed by Simon Ford.
I think that it would be nice to have a plugin capable of pulling data from taskvault.
First thing to do would be to detail all the features you are looking for in more details.
On my side I'm already quite busy with flyxc and the sounding plugin but I think a good way to motivate developers could be to make sure there is some interest in the community and that pilots would be ready to contribute (code or money) to the development of a Task plugin. For example I did setup a Buy Me A Coffee page for the sounding plugin/flyxc.
Hope this helps
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@vicb I didn't know taskvault, thanks for the tip. Until it became possible to plan competition flies directly in Windy, I will continue to use seeyou. For an initial phase, I wouldn't include extra features, what I included in the image already goes beyond the basics (at least for me). The paragliding community is small and it is difficult to develop specific tools for the sport. I’ll let it here as another idea for new developments!
