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What exactly does "OGN live tracking option" mean? Your feature description confuses me even more. What does "achieve a single OGN trace" mean? What is an "ICAO address"? How does...

Also missing in this feature request: the technical aspect. How is this supposed to work technically? How should XCSoar technically implement this "live tracking option"? What interefaces are there?

> I can only supply the OGN recommended reference page for developers http://wiki.glidernet.org/dev/ to answer your questions. This page doesn't answer any questions. It doesn't explain anything, and I had...

@cjwoolley you have a very complicated and verbose way of saying "I want XCSoar to periodically send its own position to an OGN server". Your big wall of text basically...

> The best documentation of how to send/recieve aprs packages to ogn: http://wiki.glidernet.org/aprs-interaction-examples wtf: "ask us for the algorithm." > why don't the SkyLine's servers forward the data coming from...

> Shouldn't the red color for dangers? Red should be reserved for indicating danger and other urgent information. XCSoar already abuses red too much, and we shouldn't add more red.

If you insist on red, it will not be merged. I won't discuss this. This is a no-go.

[Guidelines for the Use of Color in ATC Displays](https://www.tc.faa.gov/its/worldpac/techrpt/ar99-52.pdf) > Cultural color conventions (such as red for danger and yellow for warning) should not be violated. > This means that...

If you want the feature merged, omit the stuff that is questionable. Questionable is: - adding too many unnecessary options = overengineering - using red This suggestion has both, it's...