TJKLECKNER
EF4
I wonder if the spotternetwork crumb trail is still active. It looks like activity on the old placefile has ceased since 2011. Anyone have any updates or a new active link?
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spotternetwork crumb trail?
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Bob Schafer
EF5
Are you looking for a crumb trail of one of your own chases? I didn't even know you could get such a thing until I stumbled onto it recently. I downloaded my 130531 crumb trail.
If you're referring to something else, sorry, I don't know...
TJKLECKNER
EF4
Yeah, I would like to have my recent crumb trail. How do you set it up? Link? Where do you get the number 130531 from? I thought spotternetwork numbers were longer/text?Last edited by a moderator:
Will Campbell
EF2
That's a date good sir. 130531 = May 31, 2013
Skip Talbot
EF5
Log into the Spotter Network and there's a link on the left side where you can download your position history from certain dates:
http://www.spotternetwork.org/account/pos_history.php
Josh Durkee
EF1
Unfortunately, it seems as though the 30 day history only starts at May 28. It's been that way for a while.
TJKLECKNER
EF4
Thanks Skip! now how do I import this into GrLevel 3? Like a crumb trail or placefile?
Skip Talbot
EF5
Sorry, my last reply didn't really answer the original question, just how to get your position history off the SN site. Generally use that data for after the fact type uses. I haven't seen personalized position history placefiles. Maybe they exist, but I'm not aware of them. It should be possible to make one with the data that's available though. I remember seeing those trails from years ago, but I thought of them as kind of a curiosity rather than something really useful.
TJKLECKNER
EF4
the crumb-trail was nice because I could pull up my chase and see where I have been when I play back radar. I wonder how to create a good placefile off of the SN data. $430 StormTrack bucks to whomever figures this out!
Maybmodifyly the old placefile? http://www.spotternetwork.org/tony/sn-trails-current.txt
Bob Schafer
EF5
Oops. I posted in this thread then didn't check back for any further activity until just now. Not that I now have anything useful to add...
I also don't know how those animations of radar+"ants" are created, though it would be cool to know, if it's not too complicated!
Tony Perkins
EF2
I made a number of 'antcam' files a few years ago, including the trails link referenced above. The problem with the trails is that it quickly became unreadable on the most interesting days, as there were just too many lines. This got worse as more and more people started getting on SN. When it eventually stopped working correctly, I didn't see a need to try to fix it. The animations themselves were created using scripts to load placefiles into Grl3 for the correct point in time, doing a screenshot, and then repeating. Very 'brute force' but it worked.
TJKLECKNER
EF4
I know that with all the many users on SN the trails would be extremely crowded. I would like to just use my personal trails and nothing else. Do you know a way to just do one user at a time or even a script that would just run off the points in the download file you can get off of the SN user homepage?Similar threads
