Just to clear up the visualflight question, the scenery I have built does not use the visualflight scenery rather the same source material as visualflight.
This is a UK company called Getmapping that has done an almost complete aerial survey of the UK. They actually sell this data in fairly large chunks for 15 pounds a CD here. http://www2.getmapping.com/Catalog/ProductList.asp?ProductTypeDropDown=8 The CD uses the Enhanced Compressed Wavelet (ECW) image format which is non Linux at the moment apparently. http://www.terracolor.net/ecwinfo.htm http://remotesensing.org/gdal/frmt_ecw.html The CD comes with the ERmapping windows program that views & converts the .ecw file to ESRI Bil + Geospot, Geotiff, .bmp and jpegs. I ran it OK using codeweavers wine on my Mandrake box and got it to produce a single 2.1GB jpeg for Cornwall. Having used the ermapping program under wine for a few weeks now it does seem that the .ecw format is not only very good at compressing scenery, but that it also is very quick at decompressing it. The idea I was following was that it would be fairly straightforward to bring together some existing terragear tools to fully or partially automate the process of chopping up (chop.pl) and assigning a lat/long (tguserdef) to any aerial photos. If the photos were purchased by the Flightgear user or publicly available, then it seems that this would only comprise an innovative way of viewing the images. Re-sale, or distribution being another matter. Another interesting source for the UK is here. http://venus.aerial.cam.ac.uk/ Mat _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
