Hi folks, FlightGear currently contains a number of functions to provide an in-memory global representation of the Airport, navaid and com databases, and searchable access. This is only likely to grow as we add SUA, approach procedures, and whatever else (TACAN!).
All the functions to load and search this data are implemented in FlightGear, but also duplicated in several other apps - Atlas, fgsd, TaxiDraw, TerraGear, possibly others? It seems to me that it would be a good idea to move the aero-dataset load and search functions out of FlightGear and into SimGear, so other apps can avoid re-implementing them. I realise that SimGear is described as a 'simulation kernel' and that the aviation database is rather aviation specific, but realistically the only programs that use SimGear are all FlightGear related. It wouldn't of course help the fact that FlightGear and Atlas running together on the same PC are both loading everything into memory, but I don't see a simple way round that right now. Thoughts, objections? Cheers - Dave This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
