On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 15:01 +0200, Gijs de Rooy wrote: [snip] > Brings me to another question, are we allowed to use Robin's latest > apt.dat, once we can handle the new format? Looks like that day isn't > too far away anymore > http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=13240 > > Gijs >
Hi Gijs, Maybe I have the wrong understanding here but the only reason we do not use the latest 850 apt.dat is that it contains some 7,671 airports _NOT_ yet in our scenery 1.0.1... So if you used this new data, and selected one of those 'missing' airports, you would just be placed in a field - with no airport/runways visible... Maybe in some cases, some of these airports may have been added to the custom scenery data (via terrasync) but that I do not know... and some individual efforts like that in the forum messages... And conversely, using 850 you would NOT be able to select some 301 airports that are in our 810 data, thus drawn in our scenery 1.0.1, but are _NOT_ now in 850! And perhaps some similar problems with matching ILS/DME etc... I guess the really _BIG_ question is, is there anyone in our community currently working on re-generating world wide scenery, taking advantage of this later database? I would certainly offer to help in any way I can in such a mammoth undertaking... I hope some others can clarify this very important scenery question... Regards, Geoff. OT: While recently testing Qt QThread interface I chose to load our FG 810, and compare it roughly with XP 850 - see http://geoffair.org/projects/qt_test_gui.htm where I also compared nav.dat, awy.dat and fix.dat files - FG versus XP (GPL) data seems to have a 90% plus correspondence, at least in 'names' - I did not do complete exact position/location testing... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
