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Live wind station readings

The widget running over XCTrack's own map: wind arrows drawn on the terrain, each labelled with its speed and gust.

XCTrack Windmap

Wind stations near you, drawn on the terrain they sit on. One arrow per station, coloured by how strong the wind is. A station name can't tell you whether a reading came from a valley floor or a summit. Its position on the map does.

The arrows sit on top of XCTrack's own map. Three steps to get them there.

1Choose what you'll see

2Get the link onto your phone

On your phone: tap Copy, then paste it into XCTrack in step 3.
On a computer: point your phone's camera at the QR code.

The same link. Open it on your phone, then copy it from there.

3Set it up in XCTrack

In XCTrack, edit a page and add two widgets on top of each other: its own map underneath, and Windmap above it. The Web page widget is an XCTrack Pro feature, as is the rain radar below.

  1. Add an XC map widget. Set its scale to the value you chose above and its rotation to North-up.
    • Optional: turn on its rain radar as well. With the arrows drawn over it you get wind and rain on one screen.
  2. Add a Web page widget covering the same area, and paste your link into it.
  3. In the Web page widget's settings:
    • Allow web page to access XCTrack data: on. This is what gives it your position.
    • Refresh rate: 0. Anything else makes XCTrack reload the page every minute or two and lose everything it has drawn.
    • Allow tapping on the web page when locked: off, unless you want the optional tapping features below.
  4. Turn on Disable unlocking so a stray swipe can't rearrange your page.

Did it work? Windmap draws a small scale bar just above XCTrack's own. If the two bars are the same length, you're set. You never have to read either number. If they differ, change XCTrack's map scale until they match.

Don't shorten the link. The ${lat} and ${lng} at the end let XCTrack hand over its last known position, so the arrows appear immediately instead of after the GPS locks on.

Optional: tapping and zoom

Under Advanced settings → Interactive mode, and off by default. They need Allow tapping on the web page when locked turned on, and once it is, Windmap takes every tap over its own area, so move XCTrack's zoom buttons outside it or they will stop responding.

  1. Tap a station to see how its wind has changed over the last few hours.
  2. Add + and − buttons, or use the top and bottom of the screen, to change Windmap's scale.
  3. That changes Windmap's scale only. XCTrack doesn't let a web page change its map. Windmap says so at the bottom until you change the map to match.

The standalone app

Open the app → A separate page from the widget, and it needs none of the setup above: the same readings as a plain list, closest first. Runs on iPhone, Android and any desktop browser, and can be added to your home screen. There is no map in it, so it tells you the numbers but not where the station sits.

The colours are not a safety verdict. They are a rough aid, not an assessment of whether a flight is safe. Everything shown is measured: altitude, speed, gust and direction, with no interpolation between stations and no lee-side guesses. Readings cannot work offline. Anything marked stale is old and must be treated as unknown.

Your position stays on your phone. Only the area around you is sent to winds.mobi, to ask which stations are in it. No accounts, and no profile of you anywhere. This setup page counts visits (Cloudflare Web Analytics: page views and country, no cookies, nothing stored on your device). The overlay and the list never do.