Feature request: Circuit sports

[danfossi]

Hi, congratulations, amazing work so far!
With just a few tweaks to the xml you can get some fantastic overlays!

At the moment the application is excellent for showing the displacements from point A to point B but it seems to lack the possibility of correctly managing a looped path (e.g. a car circuit), I believe the ability to view the right overlays / metrics for these sports would make happy many people.

Ideas:

• Displaying lap times.
• Displaying best lap.
• Show G-Force (Feature request: Add g-force/accelerometer #6 )
• Show acceleration / braking time (Partially related to Feature request: Add g-force/accelerometer #6 )

[time4tea]

Thanks for this great suggestion. Yes the accelerometer information is getting closer, there was a bit to do to make it possible.
If you have any layouts that you have created it would be wonderful to see an example. A single frame would be enough to start a user-contributed gallery (please make sure it has no identifying information) if you think you could please send to gopro-overlay (at) time4tea (dot.) net.

[time4tea]

There is a new map type - Cairo circuit - that might be suitable for circuit sports. Laps and lap times are not yet done, but perhaps this is useful.
Acceleration is also implemented, although feedback on that is welcomed...
So, not yet "done" but bits of progress... cheers!

[LukeSerne]

I'd like to add a request for a lap counter, that shows which lap I'm on out of a set total number of laps. Maybe the position of the start line could be detected automatically (based on GPS and speed / acceleration - just before the start of the race, there's usually at least a few minutes where I stand at / close to the start line and my speed is 0, after which there is a "strong" acceleration), or there could be some way to manually select the position of the lap start. The latter option might be a bit difficult to implement in a user-friendly way without having a GUI.

It'd not be a problem for me if the total number of laps needs to be set by the user in the XML, so that should make that part a little easier to implement 🙂 .