SkyLines is a web platform where pilots can share their flights with others after, or even during flight via live tracking. SkyLines is a sort of social network for pilots including rankings, statistics and other interesting features. Most of all SkyLines is truly open in all regards compared to other similar platforms.

SkyLines has started development in 2012 as a spin-off from the popular XCSoar glide computer. Internally SkyLines is still sharing some code with XCSoar in the algorithmic areas and is providing the base for XCSoar's live tracking functionalities.

SkyLines is far from finished yet, but it has been running in production for quite some time now. You can reach the official server at http://www.skylines.aero.

Build Status:

The SkyLines source code is managed with git. It can be downloaded with the following command:

$ git clone git://github.com/skylines-project/skylines.git

For more information, please refer to the git documentation.

SkyLines is based on Python and depends on the following major components:

• PostgreSQL database with PostGIS 2.x extension
• Flask web application microframework for Python
• SQLAlchemy ORM framework with GeoAlchemy 2 extension
• gevent coroutine-based network library for Python (used for the live tracking server)

The process of installing these components and setting up a server for local development is described in the INSTALL.md file.

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Bugs and feature request can be submitted here on GitHub. New ideas can also be discussed in the Wiki first.

Patches should be submitted using the Pull Request system of GitHub because of the integration with TravisCI.

Here are a few guidelines for creating patches:

• patches should be self-contained
• patches should be self-documenting
  (add a good description on what is changed, and why you are changing it)
• write one patch for one change

SkyLines - the free internet platform for sharing flights
Copyright (C) 2012-2013  The SkyLines Team (see AUTHORS.md)

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