XC Soar Map Generator link down

[Sean F (F2)]

Hi all. Just tried to build a map for Bermuda High, South Carolina, USA and the Map Gen link gave the following error...

502 Bad Gateway

nginx/0.8.54

Any chance of getting this corrected or if you are working on it, an ETA? Thanks in advance!

Thanks,

Sean
F2

[Tobias Bieniek]

Hi Sean, the server that hosted the mapgen has died a couple of days ago. We are working on setting it up again, and it should be online again by the end of the week or sooner.

Turbo

[Sean F (F2)]

On Tuesday, May 7, 2013 12:59:10 PM UTC-4, Tobias Bieniek wrote:
> Hi Sean, the server that hosted the mapgen has died a couple of days ago. We are working on setting it up again, and it should be online again by the end of the week or sooner.
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> Turbo

Thanks Tobias. That puts me in a bit of a tight spot. Day 1 is tomorrow! Shame on me for not downloading this sooner.

Any chance of generating a high res (or low res) map for the Bermuda High, SC (2013 18 Meter US Nationals) contest area and emailing it to me at SMFIDLER AT GMAIL DOT COM?

Thanks in advance!!!

Sean

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On Tuesday, May 7, 2013 1:09:43 PM UTC-4, Sean F (F2) wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 7, 2013 12:59:10 PM UTC-4, Tobias Bieniek wrote:
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> Thanks Tobias. That puts me in a bit of a tight spot. Day 1 is tomorrow! Shame on me for not downloading this sooner.
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> Any chance of generating a high res (or low res) map for the Bermuda High, SC (2013 18 Meter US Nationals) contest area and emailing it to me at SMFIDLER AT GMAIL DOT COM?
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Sean,

Not to worry - there's no real 'terrain' associated with Bermuda High anyway - it's all FLAT! ;-)

TA

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The one I generated last year is on the way...

[Tobias Bieniek]

can you give me some coordinates? upper left and lower right corner of the area would be enough.

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On Tuesday, May 7, 2013 4:34:51 PM UTC-4, Tobias Bieniek wrote:
> can you give me some coordinates? upper left and lower right corner of the area would be enough.

On the turnpoint list they're using for the 18m Nationals, the range of
latitude is 34d08' to 36d08' North and the longitude range is 78d34'
to 81d59' West. I'd extend that about 50km so that any possible AATs
would not go too close to the edge. As it is I gave Sean the map I
generated last summer for flying in that area (which overlaps my home
area somewhat).

Actually, how are the "permanent" areas on the map decided? This year
Region 5 in the US is hosting the most contests of any region in the
country (Seniors, R5N, 18m, R5S, R5W, and Standard) but yet there aren't
any maps for the region unless you generate your own.

Matt

[Tobias Bieniek]

> Actually, how are the "permanent" areas on the map decided?

They were once imported from the LK8000 project and filtered for duplicates and overlapping areas. If you feel that some are missing then please tell us you suggestions with name and coordinates.

They should be rather generic and not bound to certain competitions. For example there is just a single map for Germany, one for the Alps, one for France, ... I don't know how well that maps to the US, but I could imagine grouping certain states together into useful maps.

[Surge]

The map generator site is working again and I successfully generated a map (Magaliesburg, ZA).
Thanks for fixing it Tobias (or whoever did the work in the background).

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On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 7:51:22 AM UTC-4, Tobias Bieniek wrote:
> > Actually, how are the "permanent" areas on the map decided?
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> They were once imported from the LK8000 project and filtered for duplicates and overlapping areas. If you feel that some are missing then please tell us you suggestions with name and coordinates.
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> They should be rather generic and not bound to certain competitions. For example there is just a single map for Germany, one for the Alps, one for France, ... I don't know how well that maps to the US, but I could imagine grouping certain states together into useful maps.

OK, interesting. Actually there's a few Soaring Meccas through the general
region -- Florida (12 months of soaring a year), Carolinas (most popular
US contest and also popular commercial operation), Tennessee/Georgia (weekend
race series) and the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah Valley (long ridge flights
from several clubs along its length).

I'll suggest some after consideration. Also for consideration might be to
post xcm files to the turnpoint exchange. I'll ping John and see if that
would be interesting.

Matt

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On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 9:56:43 AM UTC-4, wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 7:51:22 AM UTC-4, Tobias Bieniek wrote:
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> > > Actually, how are the "permanent" areas on the map decided?
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> > They were once imported from the LK8000 project and filtered for duplicates and overlapping areas. If you feel that some are missing then please tell us you suggestions with name and coordinates.
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> > They should be rather generic and not bound to certain competitions. For example there is just a single map for Germany, one for the Alps, one for France, ... I don't know how well that maps to the US, but I could imagine grouping certain states together into useful maps.
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> OK, interesting. Actually there's a few Soaring Meccas through the general
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> region -- Florida (12 months of soaring a year), Carolinas (most popular
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> US contest and also popular commercial operation), Tennessee/Georgia (weekend
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> race series) and the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah Valley (long ridge flights
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> from several clubs along its length).
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> I'll suggest some after consideration. Also for consideration might be to
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> post xcm files to the turnpoint exchange. I'll ping John and see if that
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> would be interesting.
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> Matt

All right, I'll suggest the following three areas. Anyone flying in the
region should check my math; I took a look at several lists of control points
in use in the region and combined them to come up with this:

GTA region: 30.5N, 88.0W, 37.0N, 82.0W
Carolinas: 32.5N, 83.8W, 37.8N, 76.0W,
Ridges: 35.7N, 84.2W, 41.0N, 77.0N

Matt

[Tobias Bieniek]

Please note that the mail server is not yet configured properly again, which means that you might not receive a mail once the map is ready for download. I will fix that asap.

[Sean F (F2)]

Matt McKrell - I wanted to publicly thank you for sending me your XC Soar Map file.

Thanks again!!!!!!!!! I have been using it since and just now have time to download a larger one.

Your's has been perfect! I would have struggled without it.

Sean
F2

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Aw, shucks! People have helped me out a lot when I'm down. Just had to
pass it on.

Nice flight today. I see Dan Sazhin did well at Mifflin today also.
How well has xcsoar been handling MAT tasks? So far it looks like you
guys have only had the long MAT called, but Mifflin was more the roll-your-own
task. Not sure how I'd do that with xcsoar yet.

Matt

[Sean F (F2)]

XC soar does it well. It has a mat task selection actually. Thanks!!

Sean