-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ben Supnik wrote: > Hi Y'all, > > I work on the scenery for X-Plane, a cross-platform flight simulator. > The scenery simulator is derived from GIS data, mostly free US > government data (SRTM, TIGER, VMAP0, OGE2, etc.) right now. > > For "obstacles" (that is, tall things that pilots want to know about, > like radio antennas, smoke stacks, etc.) we currently get US data from > an extract published by the FAA. We don't have equivalent data for the > rest of the world - in some cases, the data is not published, in others > we simply haven't had time to track down data per country. > > Our users would like to help improve our scenery, and some have already > offered us lists of obstacles. But one user had another idea: use OSM > as a repository for such information. > > - Is this an appropriate idea?
Absolutely. Please use OSM for this kind of thing. > - Is there a process for proposing/validating a schema? There is a system of proposing tags and voting etc. based on the wiki, but some prominent members of the community refuse to respect it and just tag what they feel like :-). It the past, there has been some use of OSM data in FlightGear. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Neat_Stuff#OSM_Data_in_a_Flight_Simulation There's some more stuff in this search, quite a bit of it mentions X-Plane as well: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Aopenstreetmap.org+flightgear Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkJzhUACgkQz+aYVHdncI0itgCfVljuEqzSfHSZNvGCHvgxUyX7 E4YAn0oUWAXkvSWjn3W4eJMEkrVcAdNC =+HGg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
