David Megginson wrote: > Quite a few years ago we had a debate, because we had to choose > between two sets of shoreline data:
Nowadays we're in the fortunate position of being able to merge land cover data from various sources. The foundation is still VMap0 which I've loaded into a PostGIS database, but a noticeable amount of land cover has either been edited in-place, right on the DB - or simply replaced. The names to remember in this context (in chronological order) are: Ralf Gerlich, John Holden, Christian Schmitt, Gijs de Rooy and Rainer Fischer (did I miss anyone ?). Even though there's still a huge lot to improve, these guys have already done a wonderful job so far ! If anyone feels like adding to this effort, either get in contact with Christian or John - or me. As a nice sample, look at this visual comparison. Before: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/map/?lon=-71.47911&lat=41.61493&zoom=11&layers=0B00000TFFFFFFFFTFFF After: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/map/?lon=-71.47911&lat=41.61493&zoom=11&layers=B000000TFFFFFFFFTFFF Here's the "legend: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/LandcoverDB_CS_Detail Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
