Jason Cox wrote: > I used FGSD to move VMAP to what I had from a digitised map and I wrote > a little script to pull the topo contours and change the elevations from > a mapinfo file (plain text database). > I guess now that I can do the land cover directly from my shapefiles all > I need is to modify the elevations based on the shapefile topo data.
Yup, editing land cover shapefiles should be pretty straightforward - at least several people are doing this, using QGIS, OpenJUMP or GRASS. BTW, if the copyright of the map permits public dustribution of the digitized data (I know, most maps don't), we'd be happy to include this into our world coverage. Look here for one sample of digitized, well, satellite imagery we're including into FlightGear's World Scenery: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/map/?lon=-156.34932&lat=20.76679&zoom=11&layers=B000000TFFFFFFFFTFFF .... or this one, just finished (thanks to John Holden and Chris Schmitt): http://mapserver.flightgear.org/map/?lon=-73.37928&lat=40.77091&zoom=10&layers=B000000TFFFFFFFFTFFF Editing elevation is much more difficult. In theory, you could edit the SRTM raster input and hope that TerraGear will leave the most prominent edits in place. The implementation of a TerraGear feature to override the elevation raster from a set of elevation contour lines in a certain area is still awaiting to happen. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ;5B ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
