May 9, 2006 05:40
A basic replay function should be pretty easy to implement.
Personally, I'm not sure how how useful it is to compare actual against planned or actual against last time--there are so many things that can make you faster, or in my case slower, than you expect. But the basic idea is definitely interesting, particularly for those of us who like to yarn about what happened / might have happened. For instance you could upload tracks from two or more boats and replay their race. Skippers would no doubt be heard saying things like: "Ah yes, that's where we tacked like a cow in a bog at Mark 7. If it wan't for that we'd have been 29th...". Taking it one step further, you could create a sort of illustrated story by linking in photographs taken at the time, synchronised using GPSPhotoLinker.
Endless possibilities...
Personally, I'm not sure how how useful it is to compare actual against planned or actual against last time--there are so many things that can make you faster, or in my case slower, than you expect. But the basic idea is definitely interesting, particularly for those of us who like to yarn about what happened / might have happened. For instance you could upload tracks from two or more boats and replay their race. Skippers would no doubt be heard saying things like: "Ah yes, that's where we tacked like a cow in a bog at Mark 7. If it wan't for that we'd have been 29th...". Taking it one step further, you could create a sort of illustrated story by linking in photographs taken at the time, synchronised using GPSPhotoLinker.
Endless possibilities...