On 01/28/2007 05:12 AM, Melchior FRANZ wrote:

> If one patch has been ignored for longer, point
> to it again. 


On 01/11/2007 03:55 AM, John Denker wrote:
>> 1) Did you know that there are 8 different BRAVO intersections
>>   in the database?
>> 
>>   Until now there was no support in the code for this;  all but
>>   one of the entries was thrown away at the lowest level. There
>>   was a comment in the code saying that fixing this was on the
>>   TODO list.
>> 
>>   Well, now it's fixed.  The low-level database code keeps all the
>>   information around.  This applies to named waypoints -- also
>>   called "fixes" in the code -- including intersections.
>> 
>> 2) As for navaids (as opposed to waypoints) the low-level code
>>   already provided support for ambiguous IDs, but the information
>>   was not being used very wisely by the higher layers.
>> 
>> 3) I patched a bunch of the .cxx and .hxx files so that they
>>   now provide the following feature:  If you ask for a navaid
>>   or waypoint by ID, and the ID is ambiguous, you will get the
>>   one /nearest/ to your present position.
>> 
>>   This is part of my ongoing campaign to make the location-in-air
>>   popup work properly.
>> 
>>   BTW, on initial startup, when specifying your very first
>>   position, you will get the navaid or waypoint closest to KSFO.
>> 
>> 
>> The diffs can be found at
>>   http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/nearest-fix.diff >
>>   http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/strx.hxx
>> 
>> (diffs against tonight's cvs version).
>> 
>> Comments, anyone?


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