LeeE writes: > > Would it be possible to cobble together a small utility that would > allow small parcels of the scenery database e.g. 1x1 deg tiles, to > be checked and corrected manually without setting up the full > scenery build system? That way, many people could work on it > whenever they feel like it. I've had to do this sort of manual > data correlation/verification a couple of times over the years, on > different projects I've worked on, and while it sounds like an > onerous and tedious task it's not too bad if you can just do bits > of it, now and then, as a break from your primary tasks. > > Obviously, it would be a slow and long-term undertaking but at least > the problem would be fixed eventually, whereas the alternative > seems to be that it never gets fixed and we just have to live with > it.
A little birdie told me that the OSM project is about doing just this :-) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page Note that the same services that host mapserver.flightgear.org and were used to build the latest fgfs scenery, host the development database of OSM Cheers Norman ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
