Originally posted in the Windsurfing Area.

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/General/Sailplay-port-to-Windows-Who-is-keen/

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All

Three years ago I wrote a program called Sailplay. It's a program that converts GPS log data into a google moving map movie (MPEG) file. Here are two movies I produced for a mate last summer from his GPS log data:





Sailplay is a Linux (UNIX) program and when I announced it's availability to seabreeze users back then, it didn't receive any interest. This was understandable as nobody uses Unix now days. As a winter project, I am toying with the idea of converting this program to a Windows program and releasing it as freeware. I was wondering if anybody would be interested ?

BUT... there is a catch though. Sailplay is "command line" driven and I'm pretty sure that most seabreeze users would get an anaphylactic reaction to that, so that is what I'm worried about (and hence wasting my time). Maybe, down the track if the software becomes popular it would be worth making it GUI driven for the greater masses.

Anyway, what are people's thoughts on this ?. Is it worth going ahead ?

Cheers J