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Hi Casey,
I can try to order a GlidePlan license key from Matt. It couldn't hurt to try. Please send me an email or order on my web site. I won't bill you for it until I deliver a license. Best Regards, Paul Remde "CJ" wrote in message ... Paul, The million dollar question. Can you still sell a (functioning!) licence key? I can update the sectionals myself, I just need a functioning copy of GlidePlan (SeeG would be nice too if you can swing it). Casey "Paul Remde" wrote: Hi, I should probably take GlidePlan off my web site, but I haven't yet because I still hold hope that it will be supported. I haven't received any orders for it for some years. It is a neat product but it must take a lot of work to support the maps. Matt is a great guy - perhaps he just got too busy with life to support the product well. He is very slow to respond to emails. Perhaps it's time for him to sell it or hand it off to someone who is motivated. The contest maps due offer some revenue potential. Best Regards, Paul Remde "CJ" wrote in message ... Ditto. It's now totally unsupported by Matt Heron, the developer. Even worse, you can't even *buy* a licence and self support! I managed to make the required changes to Lynn Alleys excellent sectionals to 'self support' but I'm afraid I can only use them in the limited, trial version. Cumulus Soaring still advertises licences but it's unknown if there are actually any for sale. Perhaps Paul will comment. Casey B3 Gianni Isotope wrote: Is GlidePlan still available for purchase? I've tried unsuccessfully to buy it online several times. |
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Hi All,
I am very sorry that support for GlidePlan has been less than what is needed for quite some time. As Paul correctly guessed, some life changing issues have gotten in my way, and prevented me from providing the attention that it and you deserve. In the short run, more current maps are now available at http://glide2.glideplan.com. I put this site up as the original was compromised by hackers. While not completely current, they are at least more modern than what is available on the original site. You can still buy the software there, but I have been considering a drastic price reduction, and a release of the tools I have developed to process FAA sectionals and custom stitched maps. Sectional processing is fairly straightforward, and mostly automated, although instructions must be followed carefully. Stitching sectionals together is significantly more valuable to pilots, and unfortunately significantly more difficult. It requires the use of Global Mapper for re-projection of different sectionals into a unified geo-referenced file, then post processing with tools I developed to be compatible with GlidePlan. Global mapper is not cheap in and of itself. I developed GlidePlan to fill a need in the soaring community, and as a way to give back, not to make my fortune. If folks feel there is still some value to GlidePlan, I would like to hear your thoughts about making the program available for say $49 and allowing the community to support map updating and creation themselves. There would need to be a common repository of maps, sort of like WWTE, I would think And a few hardy souls willing to contribute to map making. I can provide the post processing tools (including source code for mapping tools only, in XoJo) and instructions. I am also happy to host a content repository for now if someone wants to administer it. Please let me know your thoughts in this open forum. I am open to suggestion. Cheers, Matt |
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All,
Here is a summary of the feedback I have received so far. I have had emails from a few of you, as well as the replies posted here. Most of the interest has been in custom, stitched sectionals for contest sites. Unfortunately, as Matt pointed out, these require significantly more effort (especially the first time), and I'm not in a position now to commit the time involved to support requests for those. I did do the Nephi site as a test, and I'll post that on my website sometime soon. Given the possibility of Matt publishing instructions on making the sectionals, I don't plan to do much more at this point. Unless I get really bored (after the soaring season)! L. |
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Hi Matt,
Thank you for your reply and even more so for your kind offer! I think making a WWTE-esque map exchange for sectionals is the best possible outcome for all involved. Though you may not have considered it at the time, GlidePlan is a tool that has resulted in a very significant safety benefit. Under the terms you've outlined, I would be willing to undertake the processing of sectionals. Someone's gotta help Lynn out! Additionally, I would volunteer to be one of a number of people to stitch sectionals together for the GlidePlan community. As Region 2 is my home region when flying in the US, perhaps that'd be an appropriate start. Whilst I'm happy to volunteer my time, $449 for Global Mapper...perhaps not so eager. If an honorarium for stitched maps produced was paid by the users until the software cost was covered then that would seem fair. 45 users at $10 a pop shouldn't take long I'd hope. Best regards, Casey B3 see jay el seven six @me.com or the email associated with this post "Matt Herron Jr." wrote: Hi All, I am very sorry that support for GlidePlan has been less than what is needed for quite some time. As Paul correctly guessed, some life changing issues have gotten in my way, and prevented me from providing the attention that it and you deserve. In the short run, more current maps are now available at http://glide2.glideplan.com. I put this site up as the original was compromised by hackers. While not completely current, they are at least more modern than what is available on the original site. You can still buy the software there, but I have been considering a drastic price reduction, and a release of the tools I have developed to process FAA sectionals and custom stitched maps. Sectional processing is fairly straightforward, and mostly automated, although instructions must be followed carefully. Stitching sectionals together is significantly more valuable to pilots, and unfortunately significantly more difficult. It requires the use of Global Mapper for re-projection of different sectionals into a unified geo-referenced file, then post processing with tools I developed to be compatible with GlidePlan. Global mapper is not cheap in and of itself. I developed GlidePlan to fill a need in the soaring community, and as a way to give back, not to make my fortune. If folks feel there is still some value to GlidePlan, I would like to hear your thoughts about making the program available for say $49 and allowing the community to support map updating and creation themselves. There would need to be a common repository of maps, sort of like WWTE, I would think And a few hardy souls willing to contribute to map making. I can provide the post processing tools (including source code for mapping tools only, in XoJo) and instructions. I am also happy to host a content repository for now if someone wants to administer it. Please let me know your thoughts in this open forum. I am open to suggestion. Cheers, Matt |
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On Thursday, June 5, 2014 9:30:39 AM UTC-7, CJ wrote:
Hi Matt, Thank you for your reply and even more so for your kind offer! I think making a WWTE-esque map exchange for sectionals is the best possible outcome for all involved. Though you may not have considered it at the time, GlidePlan is a tool that has resulted in a very significant safety benefit. Under the terms you've outlined, I would be willing to undertake the processing of sectionals. Someone's gotta help Lynn out! Additionally, I would volunteer to be one of a number of people to stitch sectionals together for the GlidePlan community. As Region 2 is my home region when flying in the US, perhaps that'd be an appropriate start. Whilst I'm happy to volunteer my time, $449 for Global Mapper...perhaps not so eager. If an honorarium for stitched maps produced was paid by the users until the software cost was covered then that would seem fair. 45 users at $10 a pop shouldn't take long I'd hope. Best regards, Casey B3 see jay el seven six @me.com or the email associated with this post "Matt Herron Jr." wrote: Hi All, I am very sorry that support for GlidePlan has been less than what is needed for quite some time. As Paul correctly guessed, some life changing issues have gotten in my way, and prevented me from providing the attention that it and you deserve. In the short run, more current maps are now available at http://glide2.glideplan.com. I put this site up as the original was compromised by hackers. While not completely current, they are at least more modern than what is available on the original site. You can still buy the software there, but I have been considering a drastic price reduction, and a release of the tools I have developed to process FAA sectionals and custom stitched maps. Sectional processing is fairly straightforward, and mostly automated, although instructions must be followed carefully. Stitching sectionals together is significantly more valuable to pilots, and unfortunately significantly more difficult. It requires the use of Global Mapper for re-projection of different sectionals into a unified geo-referenced file, then post processing with tools I developed to be compatible with GlidePlan. Global mapper is not cheap in and of itself. I developed GlidePlan to fill a need in the soaring community, and as a way to give back, not to make my fortune. If folks feel there is still some value to GlidePlan, I would like to hear your thoughts about making the program available for say $49 and allowing the community to support map updating and creation themselves. There would need to be a common repository of maps, sort of like WWTE, I would think And a few hardy souls willing to contribute to map making. I can provide the post processing tools (including source code for mapping tools only, in XoJo) and instructions. I am also happy to host a content repository for now if someone wants to administer it. Please let me know your thoughts in this open forum. I am open to suggestion. Cheers, Matt I'll pledge $25 toward a license for the Global Mapper software. I've been trying to get going on the GlidePlan for some time but the lack of current charts has been a deterrent. Come on guys let's get this resurrected! Mike |
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Matt,
QGIS is an open source GIS program that has many features (http://www.qgis.org) and has expanded considerably in the last year or two. Would it have the features necessary to "stitch" together sectionals? Walt Rogers WX |
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Ordered the SeeG / GlidePlan combo at work. License keys were waiting for me when I got home. Thanks!
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And BTW...
Thank you very much for supporting GlidePlan over the years. Without a subscription service, it's hard to keep maintaining it once everyone who is going to but it... has bought it. Also, life intervenes with other priorities.. so it is. Do you know of any other GIS programs that can "stitch" together maps without the high cost of entry? Lynn... what are you using? Walt Rogers WX |
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On Thursday, June 5, 2014 4:34:29 PM UTC-7, WaltWX wrote:
And BTW... Thank you very much for supporting GlidePlan over the years. Without a subscription service, it's hard to keep maintaining it once everyone who is going to but it... has bought it. Also, life intervenes with other priorities.. so it is. Do you know of any other GIS programs that can "stitch" together maps without the high cost of entry? Lynn... what are you using? Walt Rogers WX Lynn pointed me to what he uses. "I use GDAL for reprojecting, cropping, otherwise manipulating the images, as distributed in OSGeo4W." http://www.gdal.org Seems a lot more cost-effective. Andy Blackburn 9B |
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GDAL is a powerful set of command line utilities for manipulating geo-referenced imagery. It is free and open, but the learning curve is quite steep. It is developed, maintained, and used primarily by the research community.. Some familiarity with technical aspects of map making is presumed, and some programming background (i.e. python, perl, and the like) is helpful.
It can do much of what Global Mapper does and more, but there is no GUI at all, much less a slick one. L. |
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