Le vendredi 19 août 2005 à 09:27 +0200, Ralf Gerlich a écrit : > Yes, we did ;-) However, the digitising effort is quite relaxing - > clearing your mind of any thoughts which may bother you. Especially > after a hard day at work ;-) > > And we learnt a lot about our own area - and still keep learning. We > have a lot of towns with funny names here. > > Not to forget we get to fly above our home area ;-) Even on the first > round trips around the scenery you can still find new details you didn't > actually notice before during digitalisation. > > As soon as I get time I'll document the process somewhat, hoping to get > others started. This is quite a good field for improvement in FlightGear > if you're unable to help with the coding. Let's see what comes around > with Martin Spott's PostGIS server. Perhaps we'll see more improved > scenery from other areas of the world soon. > > For the US-areas appropriate base material in the form of arial photos > is quite easy to get (terraserver-usa.com, etc.). When I get around to > doing a tutorial (working with GRASS, making scenery out of it, etc.), > I'll try doing some part of San Francisco for the "demo" scenery from > the standard data package. > > Ralf > I have been wondering to improve a place in France in Provence surrounding the Mont Ventoux, the FG scenery gives some crazy visual situations with rivers climbing mountains or roads becoming rivers. The materials are not good , the mont ventoux top should be desert stone and not green grass .... Your Lake Constance result, could encourage me to work on that. You created additional tool: "an addition to TerraGear for creating polygons from GRASS vector lines and points". Does that patch apply to the last terragear release? and is it available?
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