On 12/8/03 at 11:00 AM David Luff wrote: >http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/TaxiDraw4.jpg > >The fifth shows that one of the FG runways extends beyond the runway in the >photo. Either the FG data for this runway is wrong, or it's been extended >since the photo was taken. Can anyone who knows KDPA tell me which is >currently correct? >
OK, Google had the answer - the runway has been extended since the photo was taken. Having looked at some of the other US airports this is a not uncommon problem - several runways have been extended since the photography was taken, and at least two major runways are completely absent from the photos in the 20 or so airports I looked at. Use with caution when the runways don't match and don't assume the photo is always right!!! I couldn't find the date the photo's were taken during a cursory search, but I did find the copyright again: "The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides the Microsoft� TerraServer site with images and maps of the United States. The images are in the public domain, and are freely available for you to download, use and re-distribute. If you download and use any images, the TerraServer team and the USGS appreciate a reference to our work on this project." Perhaps we should add Micros... to the thanks file ;-)) Cheers - Dave _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
