[Pkg-running-devel] CycloGraph packaging

[Federico Brega]

2012/6/24 Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org>:
> Quoting Federico Brega (charon.66 at gmail.com):
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm a developer of CycloGraph since 2008.
>> CycloGraph is an application for plotting the elevation profile of routes.
>> It's main purpose is to graphically visualize the difficulty of a
>> road, in term of slope, difference in height, etc.
>> These kind of plots are use often in cycling competitions but it's
>> useful also in other sports, like hiking or running.
>> It's somewhat complementary to PyTrainer because it show is can be
>> used for planning and tries to give a non-subjective analysis of the
>> path.
>>
>> I'm being packaging it for some year, publishing the debs on sourceforge.
>> I opened bug #662205 and I put the packages at
>> http://mentors.debian.net/package/cyclograph.
>
>
> CC'ing you as I don't know it you're subscribed to the mailing list.
>
> That's a really interesting suggestion and work. I would welcome you
> in the pkg-running team (OK, we should rename it to pkg-sports or
> something, but that's too late...:-)) so that you can put your
> packaging work in our git.
>
> Do you think that could be possible?
>
> Noèl, Ralf, comments?
>
> Federico, what is the input of Cyclograph? GPS traces? If so, I guess
> the software does some curve fitting and corrections as we all know
> that GPS traces are  often very inaccurate when it comes at height
> differences calculations.
>
>

Joining the pkg-running team is fine, should I "Request to join" the
project on alioth?

CycloGraph supports:
• GPS eXchange Format(.gpx)
• Keyhole Markup Language (.kml)
• Salitaker (.sal)
• Training Center xml (.tcx)
• Ciclotour (.crp)
• Ciclomaniac (.xml and .txt)

Most of them contains GPS traces, but currently there is no
preprocessing other than down sampling.
I have traces from from a few hiking trips looks good enough even if
they were acquired by a reasonably priced smart-phone.
GPS traces are not the only source of information, in fact it is
possible to draw a path over Open Street Map (or Google maps
directions) and combine it with the altitude form servers like
geonames.org.
This way one can see what to expect for some unknown road/path.