"Curtis Olson" wrote:
> 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 ... !
I have such embedded database tool in mind, but actually I doubt that
it buys us anything compared to the features we currently have.
Actually I _do_ transform parts of Robin's DB into SQL for the purpose
of retrieving and displaying airport locations in the Landcover-DB.
There apparently _is_ an advantage in this transformation which lies in
the fact that I can do a conversion into the geospatial POINT datatype
and store all the different sorts of information in a unified format.
But there's no connection to any speedup in building Scenery ....
Martin.
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