On Wednesday, 12 January 2005 22:26, Martin Spott wrote: > As I already wrote we are heading for some sort of GIS application > here. Storage for VMAP0 data - at least parts of it, I don't know all > types of data that are covered by VMAP0 - could be the accomplished by > the mentioned PostgreSQL/PostGIS database. Visualization of such data > is easily done with QGIS, although for editing according to elevation > data we'd need another tool. > > A PostGIS interface in FGSD might be a solution, but I don't think FGSD > is currently capable of handlint this sort of vector data at all (I > might be proven to be wrong here). We don't want a "VMAP0"-editor here, > let's stick to standard interfaces and formats wherever possible, > otherwise we are going to manouvre into a corner very soon,
Ok, I see your point about not wanting to handle VMAP type directly in fgsd. Probably to first step is to write the code/scripts to load the vector data into a PostgreSQL/PostGIS DB and write an exporter for terragear so that Curt can carry on generating scenery without having to modify terragear. It would also be really handy to have a scaled down vector database (shapefiles?) in FG for "moving map"/GPS units as well as a basemap for flightplanners. I played with some of the terrgear tools yesterday but unfortunately they just spit out raw shape data without the associated names, descriptions, etc. which are required in maps. Paul _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
