Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport and Navaid Coordinates

2003-07-23 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 02:48:02 +0200 Geoff McLane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO, if you can download the 100% of the 'free' SOURCE, you already have 100% of the 'free' 'documentation'? What more can you 'want' from the author? Only the source can 'perfectly' describe up-to-the-minute

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport and Navaid Coordinates

2003-07-23 Thread David Megginson
Erik Hofman writes: So it's either stop adding useful and/or fun features and start working on the docs, or continue your useful work and I'll find my way to get the info. Maybe I'll ask on the proper mailing list. User docs are an excellent way for non-programmers (and non-3D-artists, in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport and Navaid Coordinates

2003-07-23 Thread Jim Wilson
Richard A Downing FBCS [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 02:48:02 +0200 Geoff McLane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO, if you can download the 100% of the 'free' SOURCE, you already have 100% of the 'free' 'documentation'? What more can you 'want' from the author? I'm so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport and Navaid Coordinates

2003-07-23 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: Richard A Downing FBCS [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm so glad that's a 'Humble' opinion. It's also just about the most stupid thing I have ever read on a serious mailing list. Now *that* is a flame. ... whatever it is, it is best answered with an invitation. When

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport and Navaid Coordinates

2003-07-23 Thread Frederic Bouvier
David Megginson wrote: Jim Wilson writes: Richard A Downing FBCS [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm so glad that's a 'Humble' opinion. It's also just about the most stupid thing I have ever read on a serious mailing list. Now *that* is a flame. ... whatever it is, it is best

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport and Navaid Coordinates

2003-07-23 Thread David Megginson
Frederic Bouvier writes: Sure. Anyone wanting to improve the situation is invited to do so. Especially for doc, I am more confortable writing C++ than english. Absolutely. As Adam Smith would say, if he were project manager, let each contribute in accordance with his (or her) natural

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport and Navaid Coordinates

2003-07-23 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:25:34 +0200 Frederic Bouvier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Megginson wrote: Jim Wilson writes: Why don't we all invite Richard to write the documentation that he thinks FlightGear or FGSD should have, and offer our assistance in answering his questions and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport and Navaid Coordinates

2003-07-22 Thread Geoff McLane
miss-quote-seen-here-recently - And before I'm pointed at FGSD, 'the-free-source', I've looked - but with almost no documentation it is not usable. IMHO, if you can download the 100% of the 'free' SOURCE, you already have 100% of the 'free' 'documentation'? What more can you 'want' from the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport and Navaid Coordinates

2003-07-20 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:17:00 -0400 Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard A Downing writes: Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WARNING ! FGFS is *NOT* a navigation tool and *NOT* to be used as such However from math import pi SG_RAD_TO_NM = 3437.7467707849392526

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport and Navaid Coordinates

2003-07-20 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Richard A Downing wrote: What I would dearly like to do is to write a graphical program to import the default.apt.gz etc, draw the airport, and graphically edit it, including drawing in the missing taxiways, stands and aprons. Position of navaids (with models), building models and the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport and Navaid Coordinates

2003-07-19 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 20:30:15 -0400 Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard A Downing writes: I'm working my way through some of the UK aerodromes, and have hit some problems agreeing ANY of the decimal coordinates in the FG files with the DMS coordinates given in the UK AIP.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Airport and Navaid Coordinates

2003-07-19 Thread Norman Vine
Richard A Downing writes: I'm working my way through some of the UK aerodromes, and have hit some problems agreeing ANY of the decimal coordinates in the FG files with the DMS coordinates given in the UK AIP. For instance, London Gatwick (EGKK) has ARP at N510853 W0001125, which by my

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Airport and Navaid Coordinates

2003-07-18 Thread Norman Vine
Richard A Downing writes: I'm working my way through some of the UK aerodromes, and have hit some problems agreeing ANY of the decimal coordinates in the FG files with the DMS coordinates given in the UK AIP. probably worth while reading this just to make sure you have the 'maths' right