IGC Google Earth Replay

At 20:24 29 November 2007, Bill Daniels wrote:
>
>'tobi' wrote in message
>news:bbf53923-40cf-4984-8b28-6c0d0d996167@e6g2000prf..
>>com...
>> >
>>> Thanks this is one of the best additions for Google
>>>Earth and
>>> soaring. I look forward to the fine tuning to add
>>>bank angle to the
>>> turns and higher replay speed. At 10x my October
>>>3rd ridge flight
>>> still takes nearly and hour to watch. It was by far
>>>the closest I can
>>> let anyone see what I see in flight.
>>>
>> bank angle is not possible with the active GE Version,
>>may be later.
>> But I will work on higher speed, better control and
>>enhanced
>> analytics.
>>
>
>It's a wonderful tool. I love it. Tobi you deserve
>a huge round of
>applause for this.
>
>However, I have noticed that while my Volkslogger files
>work fine, some IGC
>files from OLC won't play. This may be what is causing
>problems for others.
>There's an error message in German but I can't cut
>and paste it into
>babelfish.
>
>Bill D
>
>
I agree. This is an excellent utility. Many thanks
for making it available.

I don't think that it needs bank angle - it isn't a
flight simulator with an instrument panel in the screen
and the horizontal view of the scenery when turning
is fine.

However, similarly to what Bill says, most of my IGC
files won't play and I get what is probably the same
error message in German saying something about 'Vermuthlich
keine igc-Datei'. What does that signify?

John Galloway

>
> The new build fixed the unreadable file problem I was seeing. Worked
> fine yesterday. But this morning, the perspective view from GE is
> many thousands of feet too high. Both the GE eye altitude, and the
> height in meters in the lower left are correct, but the view is wrong.
> Using XP, SP2, .NET 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0 loaded. Rebooting didn't fix.
> Weird.
>
Dave,
most probably terrain is switched of (Google Layers Tab) or altitude
exaggeration under tools-options-3D is not set to 1.
Tobias

On Dec 1, 9:44 pm, Henryk Birecki <soaringpi...@> wrote:
> I got it working today. Really amazing !!
>
> However I am seeing something very annoying. The terrain view keeps
> pulsating on me ("closer-further" for lack of better description).
> Does anyone see that as well? Can it be fixed?
>
> Cheers,
> Henryk Birecki

Henryk,

That has happened on one file so far. It was a flight where my 302A
was having intermittent glitches due to a faulty antenna connection.
Probably not your problem though, but I wonder if the recording
interval of the GPS could cause a problem?

Mike

"Henryk Birecki" <soaringpilot@> wrote in message
news:7ud4l3tefj7gf0m2v0m6nl542fncjm7fmr@...
>I got it working today. Really amazing !!
>
> However I am seeing something very annoying. The terrain view keeps
> pulsating on me ("closer-further" for lack of better description).
> Does anyone see that as well? Can it be fixed?
>
> Cheers,
> Henryk Birecki

This is normal. You are probably flying at Minden in rotor.

bumper
zz
Minden, NV

The new version works very well for me and it is a
really excellent tool.

One tip for users - if you haven't already discovered
it - if the terrain ahead seems slow to load then dip
the view downwards momentarily and back up and it loads
immediately.

Thinking of it as a flight terrain viewer rather than
a flight simulator three things would enhance it for
me:

A side map showing current location.

The ability scan scan left/right and up/down while
paused.

An option to automatically jump the display to miss
out thermals except for, say, the first and last turns.

Thanks Tobi

John Galloway


At 06:54 02 December 2007, Bumper wrote:
>
>'Henryk Birecki' wrote in message
>news:7ud4l3tefj7gf0m2v0m6nl542fncjm7fmr@.. .
>>I got it working today. Really amazing !!
>>
>> However I am seeing something very annoying. The terrain
>>view keeps
>> pulsating on me ('closer-further' for lack of better
>>description).
>> Does anyone see that as well? Can it be fixed?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Henryk Birecki
>
>This is normal. You are probably flying at Minden in
>rotor.
>
>bumper
>zz
>Minden, NV
>
>
>

On 2 Dez., 05:44, Henryk Birecki <soaringpi...@> wrote:
> I got it working today. Really amazing !!
>
> However I am seeing something very annoying. The terrain view keeps
> pulsating on me ("closer-further" for lack of better description).
> Does anyone see that as well? Can it be fixed?
>
> Cheers,
> Henryk Birecki

Henryk
what you described appears in GE 4.0, thats the reasing why 4.2 is a
requisite. Even in 4.2 , if you are very close to the terrain, lets
say less than 40 fts, the Google Earth Camera sometimes makes
avoidance movements which cannot be eliminated. However as a totally
convinced user of GPS_LOG all my logs work fine.
Tobias

On 4 Dez., 21:33, "Roger Kelly" <roger-ke...@kc.> wrote:
> Great tool! Will it accept any other file format as input? I have an old
> Garmin unit which will produce mapsource files - either .gdb or tab
> delimited text. I know Gps Visualizer will convert some file types but I
> don't see .igc as an available output file type.
>
Roger, sorry, no other file formats. But google for 'gpsbabel', I
never used this but maybe it converts the Garmin output.
Tobias

Another gentleman sent me an email response - program "GPS Dump" works like
a charm.

Thanks



"tobi" <info@ywtw.de> wrote in message
news:b8765d58-2c6b-4914-a784-12b45beacc1b@d61g2000hsa..com...
> On 4 Dez., 21:33, "Roger Kelly" <roger-ke...@kc.> wrote:
>> Great tool! Will it accept any other file format as input? I have an
>> old
>> Garmin unit which will produce mapsource files - either .gdb or tab
>> delimited text. I know Gps Visualizer will convert some file types but I
>> don't see .igc as an available output file type.
>>
> Roger, sorry, no other file formats. But google for 'gpsbabel', I
> never used this but maybe it converts the Garmin output.
> Tobias

On Dec 4, 1:33 pm, "Roger Kelly" <roger-ke...@kc.> wrote:
> Great tool! Will it accept any other file format as input? I have an old
> Garmin unit which will produce mapsource files - either .gdb or tab
> delimited text. I know Gps Visualizer will convert some file types but I
> don't see .igc as an available output file type.

You can convert the *.gdb files to *.igc files with g7towin.exe. A
web search should find the source.


Andy

On Nov 28 2007, 9:41 pm, "darryl.r...@"
<darryl.r...@> wrote:
> On Nov 28, 5:15 pm, "darryl.r...@" <darryl.r...@>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Nov 28, 2:18 pm,tobi<i...@ywtw.de> wrote:
>
> > > sorry, I should have mentioned, you need Google Earth 4.2 and the
> > > current .NET installed
>
> > > > It falls over with an immediate null reference exception on Windows XP
> > > > SP2 on my ThinkPad. Anybody want the stack trace? email me.
>
> > No cigar.
>
> > I've got Google Earth 4.2 and the .NET 3.0 Framework with the very
> > latest updates. When you say the current .NET exactly what version and
> > update are you running against? On what OS platform? I'm on XP SP2 at
> > the very latest public release updates.
>
> > Anybody else got this to run?
>
> > Darryl
>
> BTW a quick check with the debugger showed this apparently uses .NET
> 2.0, so you don't need to waste time downloading the NET 3.0
> bloatware. I've emailedTobithe debug information.
>
> Darryl

Tobias found the problem with his code and .NET strangeness on my
laptop, seems like it may have affect some other laptops as well.
Anyhow it is all working great on my ThinkPad now.

Thanks Tobias for this great utility!


Darryl Ramm