On Saturday 15 October 2005 23:44, Ralf Gerlich wrote: > Hi, > > I hope I don't say too much if I say that there is work planned on > defining taxiways by means of polylines in TaxiDraw.
That's still very restrictive. It's a step in the right direction but is still far from what is needed. We need polygon editing and not just polylines. Taxiways are unfortunately too full of non-parallel sides for polylines to work properly everywhere. How would you draw these taxiways with polylines? http://surgdom.hollosite.com/flightgear/fg_airport_maker/images/terrain_approaches/katl_breakdown2.png http://surgdom.hollosite.com/flightgear/fg_airport_maker/images/terrain_approaches/katl_breakdown3.png http://surgdom.hollosite.com/flightgear/fg_airport_maker/images/terrain_approaches/katl_breakdown4.png However I don't mean to be discouraging. Polylines will be a lot better than what we currently have but would still frustrate people like me who want to be able to model all the minor details such as the common overtaking/passing sections at the end of taxiways or the shoulders that allow large aircraft to turn on a taxiway without running off it. Paul _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
