SkyLines

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:

Getting the source

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.

Installation and Setup

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.

Contact and Contributing

You read about news on Facebook and
Twitter. If you want to talk to us directly
join our Slack community.

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

License

SkyLines - the free internet platform for sharing flights
Copyright (C) 2012-2019  The SkyLines Team (see AUTHORS.md)

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

You can find the full license text in the LICENSE file.