On 01/10/2011 08:26 AM, Curtis Olson wrote:
>   often, important tall objects
> have a known absolute height ... like a radio tower in an FAA database. For
> these objects it would be better to keep them at a fixed absolute height
> rather than float them up or down with different revisions of the terrain.

This feature is a Good Thing and is well worth preserving.

> Originally when I populated the world with all the FAA database objects I
> had the absolute heights in an external database and used that to compute
> the placement in the .stg files.

Is the original data still available?

Is more-current data available?

As always, it is nicer to track the authoritative data, rather
than forking it.

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