On Monday 12 June 2006 04:22, dene maxwell wrote: > Hi > Having edited airports there are a few things that tools like TaxiDraw > provide that are invaluable; > > 1) super-imposing the airport layout on top of a scaled background image > to allow placement of taxiways etc in proportion to the RL layout. > 2) providing lat/long readout for any point on the layout. > 3) showing centre lines for runways/taxiways. > 4) catering for such things as edge lighting and centre line lighting etc. > 5) exporting the beacon information to stg files > > not to mention; layering info, (even biezer curves will need layering at > the interfaces), surface types etc. > > If a program like Inkscape can duplicate this and is multiplatform then by > all means.....
Let see... 1) Tracing taxiway outlines is time consuming and plain dumb. It takes hours just to create one airport. The SVG files on the other hand, are converted from FAA Airport Diagrams, and it only took one command. Separating all the info in a SVG files took me less than ten minute. 2) Lat/Long information is in the diagram itself. 3) You can create a new layer in inkscape and draw the center lines wherever you want. This degree of freedom would be extremely valuable when creating centerlines on the apron. 4) The lights could be automatically generated a long the edge of a taxiway, no big deal. 5) This functionality could be added to the bash script. Ampere _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
