More and more users are starting to generate scenery which cannot be reconciled with the mapserver database - usually, by taking CORINE and OSM data and incorporating them together. Some of the results are very nice and are inspiring others to contribute in certain parts of the world, especially the collaboration around Innsbruck, and the coordination to get better GPL textures into the program to make it look better in general.
For Australian purposes, if you =have= land cover data, by all means you can probably compile it using TerraGear - but you are in charge of distributing it and making sure the license requirements are all right, and there's no guarantee the scenery structure will be backwards-compatible in the future. This would be "third-party" scenery. Perhaps the biggest problem with "third-party" scenery is potential conflicts with objects, but as long as we continually encourage people to submit GPL-compliant objects regardless of the license of their terrain we're okay. I am more interested in =developing= the data for inclusion on the mapserver. I'm also greatly hoping TerraGear will be upgraded soon so that the World Scenery 2.0 can be released sometime in my lifetime, as there are a number of interesting places no-one has flown over yet on the mapserver :) Cheers John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
