Robin Peel writes: > Curt, et al: > > Yes, 'real' work has been busy this year, and I have been rying to get the > DAFIF data working for X-Plane. Everything seesm stable with the X-Plane > data now (other than some new stuff for X-Plane 7.00), so I will begin to > think about integrating FG's data needs. > > There is nothing especially inviolate about the current FG data file > formats, so we can redesign them to take advantage of any other DAFIF data > we want to use (such as runway end elevations), and to incorporate any > X-Plane data (such as taxiways) that are also important.
Hi Robin, I just thought I'd check back in with you again here. I'm about to launch into a massive world scenery rebuild that will have SRTM terrain for N/S america, as well as vmap0 roads, railway, rivers for all the world. This should be a big step forward, and I'd love to upgrade the airport data now as well. I'm sure you guys have added a lot of taxiways and new airports in the meantime as well. Is it a big deal to dump out your data in flightgear format? Has x-plane format been improved enough over the years to make a separate flightgear format redundant? Does x-plane still force you to limit the total number of airports in the x-plane data file? Being open-source we don't have much leverage and can't pay you anything, but I'd be willing to send you a full scenery set + the latest release all on cd (maybe 10 or so cd's) once the world build is complete if there would be any way you could bump this up your priority tree a bit and be able to get me something in the next couple days. Realistically, would we lose anything if we just started using the x-plane data format directly? That would save you the extra work of supporting another output format. I realize we all are very busy so if this isn't possible I can understand, but either way let me know what you think. Best regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
