> Besides being totally off topic, you can't do that direct comparison. > First off, our default scenery lacks a lot of detail in the urban area > boundaries in > that area thus marking a far larger area as being urban -> a far larger > area on which to generate buildings
That'd makes my point actually stronger, no? if you overestimate the area, you overestimate population even worse :-) > second, the generated random buildings > are a mixed set of residential and comercial/office buildings, so the math is > > a bit off there. Is it indeed? (No, the math is of course not off - if anything the assumption that the number of households per house is five might be off, all else is basic arithmetics and actual numbers). The math is an order of magnitude estimate, not some exact computation. You want to hit the right order of magnitude, not get it within 20% accuracy. For the record, I see all the pitfalls of the approach right lined up (holiday homes, unoccupied homes currently for rent or sale, mobile home trailer parks, official buildings, commercial buildings,...). So you think that I'm off and the number of households per house in US cities is in fact unity? Doesn't fit my recollections of New York, San Francisco, Denver, ... admittedly I've never been to LA. It seems terribly difficult to get an actual number for the quantity, I haven't been able to google anything. > Actualy the Geater LA + Inland Empire area should use more somewhat small > buildings, as the overwhelming majority of the residential buildings in > that area are individual houses, all the way E to San Bernardino. We're not talking a regionalized building placement concept here... we're doing an order of magnitude case study for our average US-themed city. * Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
