"Ampere K. Hardraade" wrote: > I have seen airport diagrams in PDF format for airports in countries other > than the US. For example: > http://www.sia.aviation-civile.gouv.fr/[...]
This is correct, the French approach is very progressive, as is the Danish (http://www.slv.dk/Dokumenter/dscgi/ds.py/View/Collection-618), but we have to face the fact that most countries don't offer this service. Anyway nobody prevents you to convert these charts and load the resulting bitmaps into TaxiDraw as a background image. It is no problem at all to convert a PDF into any other vector format but I've found it very difficult to define charcteristics that automagically can tell between runways, taxiways and other objects that happen to be part of the chart. You always have to spend significant manual effort to separate the data we need. On the other hand it might be worthwhile to spend this effort once we have a means to reliably convert airport layouts back and forth between vector layout and X-Plane format. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
