Ima Sudonim wrote: >> Ima Sudonim wrote: >> >> > Oh, DC scenery, one of the many things i'd like to do if I ever get >> > around to it (health permitting) 8-) I even got a gps to plot >> > buildings' locations... just was never able to do anything. >> >> >> For what ever it's worth, Google maps seems to do a surprisingly good >> job of giving up lat/lon coordinates of objects. You have to be a >> little careful of the way urls get cached and delayed in a web >> environment, but if you get a link to the current image, you can easily >> read the lat/lon coordinates out of the link. Just click on the object >> to make sure it is centered. > > > I'll give google a try then > >> >> With a hand held gps, you aren't going to ever get to stand at the >> center of the roof (well maybe rarely) so google has a lot of advantages > > > I was planning on walking the perimeter of the buildings, but with > arthritis walking isn't really my thing. 8-( Or perhaps getting the > lat/long of one or two corners of a building and then trying to > extrapolate orientation and wall sizes from public information. Your > way is much better! > >> and might even be more accurate than doing the surveying yourself >> manually. (The wording of that last phrase didn't come out very well on >> my first attempt, but I think the final edit is slightly less >> ambiguous.) :-) > > > "surveying oneself manually" -- I think I got your meaning but it > sounds illegal in a Southern state 8-) > > Ima > >> >> Curt. > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d >
At one point Chris Metzler and I were talking about making a bunch of models for DC, but we both got busy. I have about half of Andrews AFB done, and am just waiting for the next scenery release when all the taxiways I did go in to place those buildings. I can send you all that stuff. I also did the Metro PD radio tower (the one that looks like the Eiffel) but haven't put it in the repository yet. Next on the list are the Nat. Cathedral, Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Mormon Temple, Pentagon and then the Mall. Not sure what timetable I'm looking at though. If you can think of any other big visible structures that you would like to see (sorry, I'm not tackling the bridges yet, there's issues with the VMAP data I don't want to deal with) let me know. No promises though. I don't know what your schedule is, but it's probably moving a lot faster than mine will be. Josh _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
