Justin Smithies wrote: >How about we just use our own system based on data from the FG prop tree. >We already have the google map servers , so all we would need to do is get >other people to host their own too and become controllers for different >areas. >For voip / text we could use a secondary app which would run on Win , Linux & >Mac or develop our own. > >It would save heaps of legal issues . > >Ok it would maybe need some fine tuning but we're all good at that here :) > >
Well and we'd need to find qualified ATC controllers, etc. Honestly though, I don't think we need to have any animosity towards commercial/proprietary groups in all of this. Vatsim is what it is. We can participate on their terms, or we can do something ourselves, and because this is FlightGear, we can do both. Maybe some day far in the future our in-house system will rule the world, but that's no reason to exclude the potential for a lot of fun in the mean time. If we build an independent vatsim bridge module we can satisfy the licensing terms of vatsim and the licensing of FlightGear at the same time. Seems like a pretty reasonable route to me. If people don't like Vatsim's approach or their licensing terms, you are welcome to your opinion, but maybe you should take it up with the vatsim folks rather than firing random shots in the air around here. But if you do take it up with vatsim directly, please make it clear that you aren't speaking on behalf of the flightgear project as a whole. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
