Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-12 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Martin: please explain again in very great detail for me how exactly GSHHS has been improved? I didn't compare the shorelines of the whole world between old and new version :-) I actually had a look at a few places (my personal favourites) and noticed something that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-12 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: The problem might be that TerraGear is now cropping against just the landmass -- it actually has to crop against the union of the landmass, islands, lakes, and everything else. I'm pretty sure this is the correct explanation - even without looking at the code :-) The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: The TerraGear scenery bug with the Great Lakes (and possibly other large inland lakes?) is pretty serious -- it leaves many midwest U.S. and central Canadian cities perched on giant cliffs overlooking the lakes. I'd call this an early pre-release, especially because

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: While the machine performs quite well as WWW-, FTP- and database server (as well as our local fileserver !), is was not sized to to the job of an online web mapping server. The server is running only with 256 MByte of RAM at a 400 MHz clock cycle, [...] Sorry: 440 MHz

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread David Megginson
On 10/03/06, Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VMAP0 is about political boundaries so it appears not so much to care about small details in the shoreline. GSHHS is very accurate at those places where I had a look at and is now split into four categories: coastline, lakes, islands in those

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread David Megginson
On 10/03/06, David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GSHHS is excellent for ocean shorelines and bays, but wildly inaccurate for large inland bodies of water (especially the Great Lakes). It often puts the shoreline more than 1km off from where it should be, so that airports near the shore

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, David Megginson schrieb: The problem, though, is not the accuracy of the shorelines (though that's obviously important), but the type -- for some reason, TerraGear has started to misinterpret the Great Lakes as ocean rather than lake, and thus, it's cutting them right out of the scenery

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Martin Spott
Hello David, David Megginson wrote: GSHHS is excellent for ocean shorelines and bays, but wildly inaccurate for large inland bodies of water (especially the Great Lakes). You should have a look at the new 1.3 dataset from October last year, this is where the split between the different types

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread David Megginson
On 10/03/06, Ralf Gerlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that it's exactly that. I wasn't yet able to verify that, but it seems that the Great Lakes are not part of the landmass and are thus zeroed in altitude. I'm not sure why that worked in the previous releases. I haven't looked at the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, It seems that it's exactly that. I wasn't yet able to verify that, but it seems that the Great Lakes are not part of the landmass and are thus zeroed in altitude. I'm not sure why that worked in the previous releases. I haven't looked at the TerraGear code for a long time, but in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 10:59 -0600, Curtis L. Olson wrote: 3. Any other major issues? Curt, Last month I suggested a change[1] to TACAN_freq.dat and carrier_nav.dat to enable TACAN to work on the proper channels. I'd like to see this go in so the F4E I'm working on can use the TACAN.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-09 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
3. Any other major issues? I wonder if somebody (since Erik has retired from the patch integration work) has my most recent rain cone patch (stage 2) in the incoming queue. Or does it mean I have to ensure myself that enough other folks have it tested also, and then check-in it myself? I haven't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-09 Thread David Megginson
On 09/03/06, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. Any other major issues? The TerraGear scenery bug with the Great Lakes (and possibly other large inland lakes?) is pretty serious -- it leaves many midwest U.S. and central Canadian cities perched on giant cliffs overlooking the lakes.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-09 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, David Megginson schrieb: Here's another one -- the DME is no longer working unless the DME is associated with a VOR. That's a big problem for anyone who uses FlightGear for IFR practice (since DMEs are often associated with localizers or used standalone). I remember fixing this one once

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-09 Thread Durk Talsma
On Thursday 09 March 2006 17:59, Curtis L. Olson wrote: I would like to start working agressively towards the next FlightGear release which will be called v0.9.10 (putting off the v1.0 release for at least one more cycle.) We have quite a few important features and aircraft added since the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-09 Thread Lee Elliott
On Thursday 09 March 2006 19:35, David Megginson wrote: On 09/03/06, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. Any other major issues? The TerraGear scenery bug with the Great Lakes (and possibly other large inland lakes?) is pretty serious -- it leaves many midwest U.S. and central

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-09 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: On Thursday 09 March 2006 11:59, Curtis L. Olson wrote: 3. Any other major issues? KSFO in FlightGear seems to be sinking with each scenery rebuild. It looked relatively fine back in the days of 0.9.5, but now, it is half a meter below the surrounding

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-09 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson wrote: On 09/03/06, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. Any other major issues? The TerraGear scenery bug with the Great Lakes (and possibly other large inland lakes?) is pretty serious -- it leaves many midwest U.S. and central Canadian cities perched on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-09 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Thursday 09 March 2006 17:59, Curtis L. Olson wrote: 3. Any other major issues? That mouse wrapping issue reported by Jean-Yves Lefort in an other thread these hours. I noticed that too, will look into ... Greetings Mathias -- Mathias Fröhlich, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]