Ron Jensen wrote: > Let me try to hijack this thread to ask a related question: > > How do I get the altitude of the ground at a given location? > > I have a simple little tool that prints the base path and index for a > given longitude and latitude pair. Is there a simgear function to load > the associated .btg.gz terrain file and find the elevation at the given > point? Or should I be looking at flightgear for an example? I'd like > to keep the program quick and simple... Ultimate goal is automated > object placement. > > Or am I re-inventing a wheel here?
A combination of scripts/perl/scenery/calc-tile.pl and scripts/perl/examples/telnet.pl is what I use for obtaining ground elevations for the scenery object database. It does require a connection to a running instance of flightgear though - so it's not exactly "lightweight". -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
