Hi! AnMaster wrote: > Very nice, exactly what data is this scenery generated from and why can't it > be used for all of flightgear's scenery? In my opinion the current scenery is > plain ugly.
Some of the information about the data sources can be found on the project homepage: http://www.custom-scenery.org/Oshkosh-Scenery.338.0.html Part of the data is based on a "new" method of automatic landcover classification from Landsat satellite imagery. The method is not "new" in that it is well-known in other areas. The method is "new" in the sense, that it was not yet applied to FlightGear scenery generation. The other part of the data is from the U.S. Census Bureau TIGER dataset, which is highly detailed and accurate, but only available for the US (or even only parts thereof, not sure currently). > Also is this scenery being generated for some event (like the linuxtag add on > scenery was)? In that case what event exactly? The occasion is that a request was some month ago to rebuild the scenery for the Oshkosh EAA AirVenture, which is to take place next week. We are currently still in a pre-automation stage for the classification methodology. We hope to get "series-production" running at some point where a set of powerful computers (which will probably be provided by the OSGeo foundation) will perform the classification worldwide, leading to a hopefully complete landuse dataset of the whole world. What we could also improve on the scenery in a much more simple step would be to improve the textures. The current textures are much too contrast-poor. At least that's my impression when I compare what I see from above and what I see in FlightGear. Unfortunately, I'm not good at knowing in advance what will look good, I just see when it doesn't look good. Cheers, Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
