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As some of you have already seen in the race chats, I have created a small website for SOL race history data.

I have basically saved boat position information from SOL races every hour and then display this data with some additional calculated numbers per update or boat.

The data is accessible at http://sol.hmm.iki.fi/sollog/races/

I first started collecting this data and building the site just for my own purposes but it has now probably reached a state where it's useful and usable for others as well.

The site is still very much under development and the updates don't happen automatically so don't expect it always have the latest information.

My next steps will be making the updating automatic and making the quite crude site layout a bit more nice looking and easier to use.

I have also in my mind quite a lot of new features for the site but you are welcome to suggest things in this thread. Just keep in mind that this project is mostly for my own fun.

If anyone is interested to use the raw data I collect from sol to some other purpose (like building a race history player or show them in google maps etc) I can probably quite easily provide a rest/json or similar api for the data if desired.

So far I plan to store data from all SOL races in the future but that can change if the amount of data proves to be too much for my server.

BTW, if any of the SOL administrators think that it is improper for me to use data from the server like this, please let me know.
Would be possible to add TWA, TWS?
Thank you,
Antonio

--- Last Edited by zero at 2012-01-28 17:19:08 ---
TWA would be useful to show when and how long we hit land and how long we sailed dead up wind when we left the boat on CC during extend period of time.

Great stuff.
Thanks again.

Antonio
Unfortunately TWA is not yet available as SOL server gives TWA/TWD/TWS etc wind information only to your own boat, not the whole fleet.

I plan to add storing weather information later and then it's possible to calculate TWA etc. for each boat. When it's available, I'll probably include it in the tables as well.

However, even now you can see if you're grounded from the distance traveled. If that's 0 then you're either grounded, TWA is zero or it's dead calm.
Could the Lat and Long of own boat be included on the own boat page? It's on the whole fleet page for each time, but if you want to re-construct your own course it would take a lot of work.
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
Yes, the coordinates can easily be added to the boat position history. Will do that in near future.

Would there be demand of CSV (for excel import) or json versions of the tables? It would be pretty easy to have http://sol.hmm.iki.fi/sollog/boat/hmm/282.csv which would have basically the same data as comma separated values which then could be imported to excel.
This is AWESOME!!

Well Done!

SP
For anyone interested, I have now added simple comparison of two boats (on a boat's detail view, type the name of the boat to compare and push the compare button).

And probably more interesting to people is now displaying the boat routes in google maps. I.e. see the winners route on Leg 3 here: Exmeromotu

The logical next steps will probably be adding comparison of routes on maps and perhaps having fleet positions on map per update.
Regarding the map view, which is great - what I would suggest is to grab data a little more often (even use a time interval based on race length?), and filter out those which have the same heading (or within some limit like 1° or something). Updating hourly, you will often miss those short tacks (or gybes) the winner & top finishers make which are critical to how they won. And that would also stop some of the corners being chopped off in the shorter races (which SOL does more of). Also remember to make the first point on the map (or the last depending on how you draw the route) the Start of the race, like here

(PS I like it that the rest of the site has no extensions in its URLs - perhaps do the same for map?)

Awesome work though, this is really becoming useful to a wider SOL group - not an easy thing to do!! ;-)




--- Last Edited by Aaron Gage at 2012-02-10 03:02:43 ---
I help develop the client interface for the best online ocean racing sim there is... __/)/)_/)__
For some reason when I click on the link, the map shows but not the tracks.
What am I doing wrong?

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