On 21 Dec 2010, at 13:45, Martin Spott wrote: > I hope that, by putting this article together, I managed a) to provide > some understanding about why some long-awaited World Scenery features > are still not ready for production and b) maybe attract some general > interest into the related topics.
To echo what Curt said, Martin's efforts are pretty classic tools R&D work - totally unseen, but ultimately make an enormous difference to everyone's experience. It's also good to know that the 'whole world' dataset is still large enough to cause modern GIS tools some problems - the current baroque pieces of terragear mostly exist (as I understand it anyway) because back then there was no decent free tools, and computers were 'smaller' - in every axis that matters. Building on existing GIS software is obviously the way forward, and of course nothing is ever simple when working with other people's datasets. (It is quite unfortunate that the CORINE data topology is so poor, though!) Thanks for all you hard work, Martin. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester recently released a report on the Return on Investment (ROI) of Google Apps. They found a 300% ROI, 38%-56% cost savings, and break-even within 7 months. Over 3 million businesses have gone Google with Google Apps: an online email calendar, and document program that's accessible from your browser. Read the Forrester report: http://p.sf.net/sfu/googleapps-sfnew _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
