Hi,
I was delighted to find out that SkyDemon connected to X-Plane after purchasing it.
I noticed though that none of the export formats were fsm.

I wrote a small script that converts GPX to FSM (not perfect but working) and my question is.

I chose GPX since it is a documented format and I assume I can legally do that; is there a SkyDemon policy that says otherwise ?

Also: would it make more sense to use one of the other formats as input instead.

Note that I would be glad to share that script once stable.

Regards,
Philippe

Here is the script if interested - needs python 2.7 installed

DEST = '{PATH TO XPLANE HERE}/Output/FMS plans/'
SOURCE = '{PATH TO SKYDEMON GPX HERE}/SkyDemon/Routes/*.gpx'


import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import os
#ref GPX: http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/
import glob


ELEVATION = 'ele'
LATITUDE = 'lat'
LONGITUDE = 'lon'
SYM = 'sym'
#*******************************************************************************
#*******************************************************************************
#*******************************************************************************
class GPX2FSM:
    #***************************************************************************
    #***************************************************************************
    #***************************************************************************
    def __init__ (self):
        pass
    #***************************************************************************
    #***************************************************************************
    #***************************************************************************
    def Convert(self, fn):
        tree = ET.parse(fn)
        root = tree.getroot()
       
        fms = []
        route = root.getchildren()[0]
        fms.append('I')
        fms.append('3 version')
        fms.append('1')
        fms.append('1')
        index = 0
        for wp in route:
            d =  wp.attrib
            if LATITUDE in d and LONGITUDE in d:
                lat = d[LATITUDE]
                lon = d[LONGITUDE]
                ele = '3000'
                waypoint = 'WP%d' % index
                wp_found = False
                for c in wp.getchildren():
                    if -1 != c.tag.find(ELEVATION):
                        ele = c.text
                    if -1 != c.tag.find(SYM):
                        wp_found = True
                        waypoint = c.text
               
               
               
               
                #fms.append('1 %s%d 3000 %s %s' % (WAYPOINT, index, lat, lon))
                fms.append('1 %s %s %s %s' % (waypoint, ele, lat, lon))
                if not wp_found:
                    index += 1
           
        return fms
#*******************************************************************************
#*******************************************************************************
#*******************************************************************************
if __name__ == "__main__":
    o = GPX2FSM()
    files = glob.glob(SOURCE)
    for src in files:
        fms = o.Convert(src)
       
        dst = DEST + 'conv-'  + os.path.basename(src).split('.')[0] + '.fms'
        print 'writing ' + dst
        f = open (dst,'w')
        for i in fms:
            f.write(i + '\n')
        f.close()