Am 04.09.11 17:11, schrieb Geoff McLane: > 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? >
Hi Geoff Interesting tool to compare recent data files, thanks ! Yes, I think there are people working on this very huge task of building World Scenery, at least Martin Spott is on I think. But this is such a big task, we still have to be patient. Just to clarify about my use of 810 and 850 aeronautical data: I am using 850 data experimental for the mapnik mapserver, as an example and to look into what comes around with current data cycle. I am NOT using it to promote this as base for scenery creation yet. Cheers, Yves ps. Anyway, when the experimental mapnik mapserver will run once on the official flightgear scenery server we will use current fg data from the flightgear database I think, and probably, probably some 850 data already integrated into our current official database by Martin Spott ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
