PySoar as a JSON webservice

[jvanakker]

Not sure if this the right place to post, but anyway: Last night I was thinking, it would be nice if the PySoar analysis would run as a public JSON/Rest webservice that you can feed with a soaringspot link (or an individual IGC), where it returns the data (which is now in the spreadsheet) in JSON format. Maybe different endpoints for different analysis data.

I'm working on a way to quickly compare multiple flights on a map, with IGC's from soaring spot, as an iOS (and macOS) application. So for something like this, the addition of analysis obtained through a webservice would be great of course. This way, any other application could use PySoar while you can optimize/change the analysis it without the applications needing to change.

Just a quick idea, haven't considered yet how feasible this would be in terms of server load, etc. Or of course if it's more efficient to just integrate the analysis into the application itself instead of using a webservice.