On jeudi 30 octobre 2008, Ralf Gerlich wrote: > Hello everybody! > > The World Custom Scenery Project is proud to finally present the > long-awaited bugfix release V1.0.1 of the World Scenery. > > The scenery can currently be downloaded at > http://mapserver.flightgear.org/Scenery > > We suggest that mirror provides fetch the release from there. > > Be sure to also download the shared models collection from > http://scenemodels.flightgear.org/download/SharedModels.tgz and unpack > the archive in your FGROOT folder. > > Outline of this mail: > - Contents of the scenery > - Acknowledgements > - Base data > - Airport data proposal > > Contents of the scenery > ----------------------- > > In addition to the bugfix the release contains some very fine bits of > custom scenery work, namely > > - 6 Caribbean islands plus Helgoland (John Holden, Christian Schmitt) > > - Revised ParisV2 scenario from > http://helijah.free.fr/flightgear/scenery/ParisV2/ParisV2.htm > (cleanup and import by Jon Stockill) > > - Taxiway signs at 6 airfields: KSFO, KBWI, KLVK, KRHV, TFFF, TJSJ > > - Major progress in crowding the Scenery with 3D models - by Alexis > Bory, Gijs de Rooy, Alex Park, Christian Schmitt, Hugo Devon , Paolo > Savini .... just to name a few of the many involved contributors; > > Acknowledgements > ---------------- > > The scenery was built on a quad-processor machine in San Diego with > access provided to us by John Graham of Telascience. > > Jon Stockill and Martin Spott maintain the static scenery objects > database at http://scenemodels.flightgear.org/ and provided the > adjustments of the elevations in the objects DB. > > Curt Olson provided us with valuable hints as a long-time scenery > builder and TerraGear development. > > Special thanks go to John Holden and Christian Schmitt, who by their > work on manual digitizing of Landsat imagery in the Caribbeans and at > Helgoland have helped us pushing the envelope of custom scenery in the > official scenery release. We sincerely hope that by this newfound > experience more people will go this way of improving the data in the > landcover database. > > Base data > --------- > > The scenery was generated with terragear-cs, the Custom Scenery version > of TerraGear, available at http://mapserver.flightgear.org/git. > > Except for the obvious cases listed above the following base data was used: > > - landcover and line data: VMAP0, as available on > http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ > > - airport data (apt.dat): as included in FlightGear Release 1.0 > > - elevation data: SRTM v2 3arcsec and 30arcsec data > > - static objects: current status of the FlightGear Static Scenery > Database (http://scenemodels.flightgear.org/) as of > 29th of October 2008 > > As apt.dat is distributed with the base package instead of the scenery > itself we were unable to use up-to-date airport data. This scenery > release is intended to serve as official scenery for the current > FlightGear release and therefore its contents must be synchronized with > the contents of the released base package. > > Airport data proposal > --------------------- > > As an additional feature the release therefore contains airport data in > an "Airports"-directory, based on a proposal of the Custom Scenery > Project on decoupling airport data from the base package. > > The Custom-Scenery-Team is convinced that airport data related to the > geometry of the scenery has its place in the scenery instead of the base > package. Besides the easily updated static objects airports currently > are the main scenery feature that is and should be in constant flux due > to updates by users. > > Currently, the release-cycle of the base-package dictates the possible > update cycle of airport data in the official scenery. This is a pity and > ought to be changed. > > The proposal targeted a scheme which allows users to only download the > airport data required for their desired area, while at the same time > allowing easy access to the data with either the airport-ID or a > position as key. > > Currently the apt.dat makes up nearly 5MB compressed, containing lots of > data which is actually only needed by genapts, but not by FlightGear > itself. With the v850 format of apt.dat - which we will hopefully be > able to support in the future - this amount of "superfluous" data will > increase. > > We therefore think that simply distributing apt.dat.gz together with > each scenery tile might not be feasible anymore. > > Each 10x10-degree-tile contains only information about the airports > contained in this tile, consisting of at most three XML-files per > airport: <ICAO>.twr.xml, <ICAO>.threshold.xml, <ICAO>.parking.xml > > The <ICAO>.twr.xml-File contains the position(s) of the tower(s) > associated with the airport in a PropertyList, presumably to be used for > tower view positioning. > > The <ICAO>.threshold.xml-File contains the threshold positions of > runways associated with the airport - two per runway - with heading and > displacement information, again in a PropertyList. > > The <ICAO>.parking.xml-File contains the AI-network for the airport in > the well-known format. > > These files are found in a three-level directory structure (poor man's > index). The files for KSFO are for example found in > Airports/K/S/F/KSFO.*.xml > > In addition, the Airports directory contains an index.txt-file with > three columns: ID, longitude and latitude of the airport, sorted by > longitude and latitude. The position is calculated as the center of > gravity of all runways specified for the airport. > > Cheers, > Ralf
I have just downloaded and checked Honkong bay ( with VHHH ) which is again right I don't know if elsewhere the coastline is right, since i only looked at Cote d' Azur and Honkong bay ( my two preferred places) , however the old problems seems solved. Congratulations. Thanks for it. Cheers BTW: I noticed that the old Kai Tak Hong Kong Airport is still there which is a nice idea. -- Gérard http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/ J'ai décidé d'être heureux parce que c'est bon pour la santé. Voltaire ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
