Martin Spott writes: > > By definition you can transform the current VMAP0 data, which comes in > the so called VPF format, into shapefiles. In order to achieve this you > need OGR and the OGDI VPF driver (Norman, please correct me if I'm > wrong).
The same set of tool scan be used to go directly to PostGIS without teh intermediary shapefile step. > Once we have the landcover data in a PostGIS database we are enabled to > manually adjust roads and rivers, add ponds like the one in front of > the Oracle building and send everything to Curt for the scenery > generation .... if someone adds a Shapefile or PostGIS driver to > TerraGear which replaces the current VMAP0 importer. > > I'm currently uncertain if we really can store the _whole_ scenery in > PostGIS. Our elevation data currently comes as raster data but maybe > it makes sense to convert that into contour lines - which we finally > can store in such a database as well. Does this make sense, Norman, or > will this eliminate our ability to alter the data with 'common' tools ? Why not just store the Elevation data in a mixed record type of a Polygon with a BLOB field ? Cheers Norman _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
