Re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic North

2011-01-17 Thread J. Holden
c) Doesn't 213 seem like a small number compared to the thousands of updates that have been applied to Robin's apt.dat since FG forked it in 2008? If you are looking for a project, we need someone to incorporate the new X-Plane format into TerraGear - while keeping polygon counts as low as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic North

2011-01-17 Thread Frederic Bouvier
c) Doesn't 213 seem like a small number compared to the thousands of updates that have been applied to Robin's apt.dat since FG forked it in 2008? If you are looking for a project, we need someone to incorporate the new X-Plane format into TerraGear - while keeping polygon counts as low

[Flightgear-devel] Magnetic North

2011-01-16 Thread Barry Fawthrop
There was a news article on Magnetic North Change and How KTPA had to change from 90 to 80 Are these changes being effected into FlightGear ??? -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic North

2011-01-16 Thread Martin Spott
Barry Fawthrop wrote: There was a news article on Magnetic North Change and How KTPA had to change from 90 to 80 Are these changes being effected into FlightGear ??? Depends on if anyone's submitting a modified layout. Actually the runway directions are hardwired into our airfield

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic North

2011-01-16 Thread John Denker
On 01/16/2011 01:25 PM, Barry Fawthrop wrote: There was a news article on Magnetic North Change and How KTPA had to change from 90 to 80 Are these changes being effected into FlightGear ??? No. FG is still using airport data that hasn't been updated since 2008. More than a few things

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic North

2011-01-16 Thread Martin Spott
John Denker wrote: FG is still using airport data that hasn't been updated since 2008. Depends on your particular definition of FG. To be precise, the file at: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/apt.dat.gz contains 213 airfield updates (currently) which have been merged over the time, which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic North

2011-01-16 Thread J. Holden
Hi, I have sent Martin an updated layout for KTPA. As is my understanding, thie runways will be updated in the next world scenery build, unless I've done something wrong. Cheers John -- Protect Your Site and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic North

2011-01-16 Thread Peter Brown
Unfortunately most of the users are not using or able to create individual Terrain builds. If I could without taking computer courses I would, just to make use of those 213 airfield updates! :) :) …trying to be patient. Peter :) On Jan 16, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Martin Spott wrote: John Denker

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic North

2011-01-16 Thread John Denker
On 01/16/2011 02:23 PM, Martin Spott wrote: John Denker wrote: FG is still using airport data that hasn't been updated since 2008. Depends on your particular definition of FG. To be precise, the file at: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/apt.dat.gz [1] contains 213 airfield

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic North

2011-01-16 Thread Martin Spott
John Denker wrote: On 01/16/2011 02:23 PM, Martin Spott wrote: John Denker wrote: FG is still using airport data that hasn't been updated since 2008. Depends on your particular definition of FG. To be precise, the file at: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/apt.dat.gz [1]