On 12/20/06, Martin Spott wrote:
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:34:18 +0000 (UTC), Martin wrote in message
> <[my own Message-ID removed]>:
Man, am I glad that I'm using an 'inofficial' domainname for writing
these postings, otherwise your ignorance concerning privacy issues
would push my address into every harvester on this world .... (if not
already done so ....).
I apologize when I miss this too, or forget and top post ... my email client
isn't particularly helpful with these procedural items. :-(
Well, my intention was to remove that item from the Wiki because simply
storing the same data just in another format actually buys you nothing.
Does it ? So, if, how ?
Adding to that, DAFIF, does not contain taxiway information but instead
several errors that typically get corrected manually over the time.
This means: The most accurate airport database you can get is from the
source we already use.
Also note that Robin Peel keeps this data (and much more) in his own
database already. The apt.dat is just an export of select fields and data
in some predetermined linear format.
I don't see what advantage maintaining our own SQL version of a subset of
someone else's SQL database will give us. Faster editing? The file isn't
big enough to really worry about speed. Want to use an sql database with
flightgear at runtime? Better find an embedded database tool that is binary
compatible across all platforms ... and is open source ... and compiles on
all the platforms we support ... !
gdbm? No binary compatibility in the DB across platforms.
metakit? Hehe, no comment ... or maybe I should comment since it's been so
long since we've used it ...
xml? Without David M. here to push that idea I think we'll leave it in it's
much more compact current form.
Regards,
Curt.
--
Curtis Olson - University of Minnesota - FlightGear Project
http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
http://www.flightgear.org
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