Chris Metzler wrote
I'm wondering whether we know what the X-Plane format really *is*.
Robin does a pretty good job of documenting his format on his website.
Since the beginning of September, Robin Peel has been saying that a new set of files are coming out "next weekend, September 18."
He's busy like all of us, new data supposedly has now been released.
On a related note, since the X-Plane files are apparently going to support this soon, is there any possibility of being able to "label" taxiways with identifiers (e.g. "taxiway A")?
The fileformat already has a placeholder for taxiway labels. Right now they are all listed as "xxx".
Finally, I'm wondering how you're going to handle conflicts between future
X-Plane data releases, and changes that people have sent to you. For
example, suppose an FG user sends some changes to an airport to you; and
suppose some X-Plane user sends some changes to the same airport to Robin
Peel (or the DAFIF changes for that airport). The next X-Plane dataset
contains the changes that Robin Peel received, which are different from
the ones you have. How would that get resolved? Go with theirs? Go with
ours? Contact the person who sent you changes to review the situation and
update?
The plan is to submit our local changes to Robin for inclusion in his next release. But the exact details of integrating our changes with his next release are a little bit open for discussion. Clearly some clever scripts could help the process tremendously, but there would need to be some human oversight.
Regards,
Curt.
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