Curtis Olson wrote: > Glad to see someone is starting to nibble at the 8.50 format and figure it > out. If you are developing code that takes the bezier outlines and can turn > that into a polygon representation, then it shouldn't be terribly difficult > to add that into genapts.
I'd like to remind that we are (I am) maintaining a complete set of runways as well as taxiways/aprons at our repository known as "Landcover-DB" as closed polygons with beziers properly cut into smaller segments, merged together from v8.50 where available and v8.10 for the rest. Different representations (distinct runway threshold positions for example) or various combinations are available as well. These are available for export into different formats like ESRI Shapefiles and a lot more - please request if you think it might be useful for further development. If you load shapefiles into QGIS, it would, for example, look like this shot: http://foxtrot.mgras.net/bitmap/FGFS/KSFO-861.png Not that, as shown here, not all v8.50 airfields match the quality measures we would expect - just take the northern part of taxiways L (east of 19L) as an example. This doesn't mean that we should not go for v8.50, I'm just trying to point out that we should consider selecting carefully. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
