Curtis L. Olson wrote:
Josh Babcock wrote:
terragear.microsoft.com and seamless.usgs.gov both give .5 m color
ortho photos for many major American cities, and I think 2m bw for the
rest of the US. You can get the lat/lon of the corners of the image
from both, and both also tell you the scale of the image. terraserver
has a nicer interface, but seamless also has access to many other
datasets like vector roads and land use.
I have a related problem, while we're on the subject. I'm going to
place a custom beacon at Andrews. First, it's a military beacon so it
has three lights, and second it sits directly on top of a water tower,
which will be a separate model. When I submit the taxiway data to
Robin with the location of the beacon will this cause your generation
scripts to place a standard beacon tower at the same spot?
The airport generation scripts create a beacon if there is one in the
datafile for that airport, yes. Perhaps we need a way to provide a
manually maintained exceptions list when building airports (and scenery).
Curt.
Maybe if there is a user defined object whose name matches *beacon* within a
certain radius of the airport center then automatic generation of a beacon could
be suppressed. The radius could be based on the length of the longest runway,
or possibly there is some FAA rule about how close airport beacons can be to
each other and still be considered different airports. Anyway, the data should
already be in whatever database you use to store custom scenery, it just takes
some smart scripting to see it.
Josh
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