Peter Sadrozinski wrote:
> I have some experience writing GRASS modules, and I noticed some were being
> added to terragear-cs a few months ago. one of which looked like a skeleton
> for a btg file exporter. Is anyone actively working on this? If not, I can
> continue down that path.
You're welcome to do so.
All the 'real' GRASS modules in terragear-cs's "gismodules"
subdirectory had been written by Ralf Gerlich, who recently left the
scene for a really convincing reason. The other GRASS-related part
("gisscripts") consist of prototype-scripts making use of GRASS for
topologically cleaning and maintaining polygon land cover data at large
(worldwide) scale. That's my role in the game.
As a side-effect of my experiments, the GRASS vector data model has
already seen huge improvement, but there are still a few issues to be
solved until I'd recommend the procedure for unattended use.
In fact, while spending most of my FlightGear-related spare time budget
on doing ground-work for building better FlightGear Scenery, basically
I'm (beta-)testing and exploring corner cases of the use of GRASS on
large vector databases :-)
> I see qgis can only use grass modules "if QGIS was started from a GRASS
> shell or if a GRASS mapset was opened from QGIS".
Indeed, using GRASS plugins in QGIS just means to use QGIS as a GUI on top
of a GRASS backend as an alternative to GRASS' native GUI, they won't share
any data.
> I'd really like to be able to add something of use to the project, as I
> really enjoy flightgear. In the past couple of years, there have been so
> many new improvements to so many systems, yet the scenery / terrain still
> seems to get the least attention (no fault on any of the developers, I just
> think it's the most intimidating piece of the project)
I think what you're looking at is a clash between two fundamentally
different ways of understanding the term "developing scenery" :-)
Cheers,
Martin.
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