Project Updraft
Description
Updraft is a students software project, developed at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague.
Main aim is to create user-friendly open source desktop application for glider flight planning and visualization.
Features will include visualization of 3D maps, flight planning and visualizations of recorded IGC files, all of that on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Project is inspired by commercial application SeeYou, developed by Naviter company.
Team
Project supervisor
- Alexander Wilkie
Team members
- Aleš Zita
- Bohdan Maslowski
- Čestmír Houška
- Jakub Marek
- Mária Vámošová
- Tomáš Zámečník
Technology
In technology selection, we were focused on application portability.
- Team communication is handled with freelists.org mailing list. View list archive.
- As a Version control system we use Git.
- Master repository is stored at GitHub. View repository.
- Whole application is written in C++.
- Building is managed with CMake.
- GUI is created in Qt framework.
- For 3D graphics is used OpenGL.
- Access to the OpenGL is made through the OpenSceneGraph toolkit.
- Map rendering is performed with osgEarth library.
- Source code documentation is generated by Doxygen.
Documentation
