I made a large (1000 meter) sign to place over the coordinates for Sembach and Enkenbach, Germany, because the scenery data for that area is not good enough for finding towns visually.
http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/city_sign.jpg
It would be possible to put these over lots of towns and have them switched on/off with a key binding. Is there any interest in that sort of thing being applied elsewhere, and on a large scale, amongst the developers?
It's easy enough to do using the date from GNS (http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/) the biggest quiestion is how to generate the signs - imagemagick could be used to generate a texture to add to a standard model (and an appropriate xml file could be created at the same time to select it) but that would result in insane texture usage. A better way may be to generate the letters seperately, and add those to the scenery (not unlike a variation on the hollywood sign).
Jon
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