On Saturday 10 September 2005 13:19, Dave Martin wrote: > I have a feeling as we get more road data, we're going to be seeing slight > placement errors at the airports. Currently EGBB is placed over the A45 on > the 0.9.8 scenery. If I can get that road mapped by GPS and a few others > around it, we can probably move the airport to its correct location.
I noticed that a lot of airports in the X-Plane DB are quite far out. Even some major airports like Sion were out by ~ 3 km. What I do find interesting is that the quality of the data seems to change for every country. South Eastern France's data was horrid, so was Switzerland's however Italy's data was almost spot on more than 90% of the time. Maybe someone corrected the data for Italy already or maybe it came from a different source. Also it appears that a lot of the data was pure guess work in a lot of cases. I saw plenty of runways that were more than 20 degrees out, runways that were more than 50% too short, wrong runway id's, wrong surface types, etc. Ever seen a military airport with a single 500m long grass runway that they use for F18's, Mirages, etc? :) Paul _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
