Erik Hofman wrote:
> Stuart Buchanan wrote:
>> http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/FlightGear_Newsletter_August_2009
>
> Looking at the custom made scenery screenshots I must say that hand
> altered scenery might look close to, if not as good as, photo realistic
> scenery.
People have probably started wondering why those who claim to be busy
building and distributing World Scenery for FlightGear didn't jump on
the same track, using CORINE and OSM data as input for the World
Scenery, like Jake did with 'his' Innsbruck Scenery (as well as a
French fellow who's been building CORINE/OSM-based Scenery for Grenoble
and a few other places in France).
The background is pretty simple - our 'excuse' ;-) for not doing so:
Technically it's not a big deal to build FlightGear Scenery with CORINE
and OSM (and we've already done so for 'private' samples). Yet we have
to face the fact that neither of the two datasets ships under a License
which allows the distribution of Scenery under the GPL-affected
FlightGear umbrella (I'll leave the boring details out).
Fortunately some people have started classifying/digitizing land cover
data from 'free' (in the sense of 'GPL-compilant') data sources, like
Landsat7 imagery, of which a few samples already made it into the
current 'official' Scenery. I'll leave it to the respective authors to
present their results, if they like.
Cheers,
Martin.
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