Curtis L. Olson writes: > >Jim Wilson writes: > Possibly we can move the tower during teleports though...hmmm.
+10 >If we came up with some code to find the closest airport to a lat/lon, >then we could write a function to move the tower view to the closest >airport, and bind a key to it. Or perhaps allow the user to specify >which airport to move the tower too ... if I am inbound to KLAX for >instance, it might be interesting to move the tower view there well in >advance of my arrival ... but this is something that would have to be >done interactively. Yes setting the tower view to a specific airport would need some kind intervention. Perhaps tie'ing it to the current waypoint makes sense ...... hmmm Also The tile_cache mechanism could be extended to keep a list of loaded airports and this list could be queried for the closest one or those within some range. Note that a fast 'chord distance' would work well for this as all we are interested in is the 'relative' distance and the since the spherical chord has a one to one maping to the geodetic distance at the kind of scale involved here, it would be sufficient. Norman _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
