Could the solver accept a flight less than 5 points?

[flyingtof]

Hi,

With @vicb, we are working on the integration of igc-xc-score in flyxc. In some cases, the flights we are sending to the solver have less than 5 points. Under this limit, the solver returns an error.
Do you think that this limitation could be removed from igc-xc-score.
Would you accept a PR to solve this issue?

[vicb]

With @vicb

Christophe is actually doing all the work :)

But yes what would be nice is to be able to pass 2+ points - it is enough for free distance.

The use case is that @flyingtof is integrating the scoring into the XC Planner.

Next steps will be to score uploaded tracks and then live tracks.
I'm super happy to see the integration moving forward - many pilots have requested it.

I hope you're fine @mmomtchev !

[mmomtchev]

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[vicb]

Hum?
I'm sorry to hear that bu I'm not sure to understand what you expect from us?
I hope everything will turn ok for you.

[mmomtchev]

I do not expect anything, I am simply saying this every time someone does it.

[vicb]

does what?

And about the issue, would you accept a PR / answer questions we can have?

[mmomtchev]

Each time multiple persons posts simultaneously.

I wonder what would be the point of scoring of flight with less than 5 points.

It is the triangle algorithm which currently requires at least 5 points.

[vicb]

Chris is helping on flyxc and asked a question. I thought I would drop by and say hello, we haven't discussed in a long time. Sorry if it offended you, that was not the purpose.

We want to score any route created with the router and it starts from 2 points.

The current workaround Chris implemented is to extrapolate points. It would be better if solver return a score of 0 when they don't have enough points (i.e. 3 for triangles) instead of throwing.

[vicb]

We have solved this by duplicating the last point and trimming the indexes to the original length in the Solution.
It works fine for us.
Let me know if you have any interest in us upstreaming this.

Edit: Otherwise you can close the issue. Thanks.