Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover Contribution

2012-03-13 Thread J. Holden
Terrasync only downloads from the Terrasync server. If the scenery data on the Custom layer has not been placed in the Terrasync server, you will not be able to download it. I have no idea why the improved Washington, DC is not on the Terrasync server (or for that matter, the improved Rio de

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover Contribution

2012-03-13 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
Not sure if you can get a much higher level of detail by hand drawing... I've found, downloaded and checked the Italy-Corine FlightGear scenery. Corine is great but it lacks a lot of details :-( Looks to be machine generated. My conclusion: I'm definetely gonna be able to do much better by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover Contribution

2012-03-13 Thread Martin Spott
Roberto Inzerillo wrote: I've found, downloaded and checked the Italy-Corine FlightGear scenery. Corine is great but it lacks a lot of details :-( Looks to be machine generated. That's what they call remote sensing ;-) - a prominent and fast-developing topic in today's GIS world. Anyhow, I

[Flightgear-devel] Landcover Contribution

2012-03-12 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
Since I'm willing to contribute to the landscape improvement (my area is very poorly covered) I'm wondering if the informations at http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:_Create_custom_scenery are still valid. -- NEU: FreePhone 3-fach-Flat mit kostenlosem Smartphone!

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover Contribution

2012-03-12 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi Roberto, Since I'm willing to contribute to the landscape improvement (my area is very poorly covered) I'm wondering if the informations at http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:_Create_custom_scenery are still valid. That tutorial should still work. I've updated it last year to QGIS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover Contribution

2012-03-12 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
Il 12/03/2012 18:56, Gijs de Rooy ha scritto: Hi Roberto, Since I'm willing to contribute to the landscape improvement (my area is very poorly covered) I'm wondering if the informations at http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:_Create_custom_scenery

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover Contribution

2012-03-12 Thread Gijs de Rooy
I don't know about the actual merge with existing scenery, other should answer that question ;) That's my area as FlightGear Landcover-DB-VMap0: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/map/?lon=13.33004lat=38.18341zoom=12layers=0B00TFFTTFFF That's the same area as seen by Google maps:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover Contribution

2012-03-12 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
I don't know about the actual merge with existing scenery, other should answer that question ;) So you tell me I should simply create new shapefiles (not caring about the current scenery) and submit them to papillon81 and statto? That's my area as FlightGear Landcover-DB-VMap0: ... And