If we get this simple enough, I might be able to generate the runs of one or more boats after each tybee leg on www.teamseacats.com
That sounds like a good idea for the organizers... Download everyone's tracks after each leg, and put them together on this for the "Race recap report"
Ya ya ya Jake; links. Here's your link. This is a link to MB that demonstrates how you can match two tracks against one another, even if they are done at a different time.
For direct, boat to boat comparison, you would have to cooperatively upload tracks that all begin at the exact same time of day. MB seems to "dot race" the tracks by starting all compared tracks at the begining of each track, regardless of the time of day. ------------- *edit* Nevermind. I found the button on MotionBased that says "real time." That should take care of any sychronization issues when comparing tracks. GARY -----------
For coordinating tracks, you can either edit your tracks to have a common start time in MapSource or you can export into xml or txt and do the same. Once that is done, you can import into MotionBased... you may have to convert it through G7toWin as the MotionBased import is not too forgiving. Just remember that MotionBased needs an Active Log, not a saved track. Saved tracks loose some of the timestamp data that is needed to drive MotionBased graphing.
Use knots in your speed claims, we are sailors! 1 knots is one nautical mile / hour. One nautical mile is 1/60 of a degree so it all matches nicely for navigation. On land we use km/hour or miles/hour but on water use knots!!
On land we use km/hour or miles/hour but on water use knots!!
Hakan,
I sure hope you would be able to forgive me if my use of mph was offensive. I was replying to another fellow who used it and it was a remark about a speed that a website (motionbased) had used to show my speed.
I usually use knots, but have found that the majority of cat sailors who I have spoken with, usually quote mph when talking about speed on their cats. One way or the other, there will be some people who need to know how to convert.
