On Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 11:01:22 AM UTC-4, wrote:
If we can get the owners of Glideport.aero to publish points for each flight I think that OLC will become obsolete.
The graphics and utility of Glideport is sooo much better than OLC.

I find the Glideport display rather hard to figure out, and slow on non-fast connections (at least until one takes out the 3D window), but it does have some nice features. OLC-type score calculation seems to be implemented within other software, such as Tophat/XCsoar, thus it could also be embedded within Glideport.

There is growing functional overlap between at least these three services: OLC, glideport.aero, and glidernet.org. I suspect that (1) not all of them will survive more than a few more years, and (2) there will be some wailing and gnashing of teeth in the process. It is also quite possible that the world will go one way, and a certain large country that considers itself exceptional will go another way.

Talking about Glideport and some alternative data communication methods, is it legal in the USA to have a cellphone talk to the cell towers from a flying aircraft?