Luke Scharf writes: > I've just started working with Flightgear. It has occurred to me > that it might be fun to to take aerial photos of my local airports > and turn them into scenery for the simulator.
It's sort-of fun, but it will look really crappy near the ground when you run out of resolution (and have 2-meter-wide texcels, or whatever). That's why aerial photos are useful for just about everything but airports, where you're bound to be spending a lot of time near the ground. > I'm a Linux geek with a CS degree and also a private pilot... But, > I'm definitely not a GIS expert. There are way too many of us computer geeks flying, from what I can tell -- every private pilot is either a retired guy or a 30-something hacker who cashed in his (or her) stock options before the Big Crash. Perhaps we should rename the Bonanza from the "fork-tailed doctor killer" to the "fork-tailed geek swatter," or something similar; after all between the cost of malpractice insurance and fee reductions from HMO's, doctors probably cannot afford to fly as much as they used to. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
