When I ran the research flight simulator for a major aircraft manufacturer in the UK (many moons ago when we still had such an industry), we had a saying:- "Ask 10 test pilots for their opinion, and you will get 10 different answers"
The same will apply here. Someone who is interested in commercial airliners will have a different view from a light aircraft pilot who wishes to hone his IFR techniques, or from another light aircraft pilot who want to know how to fly VFR in a congested area, or from a military pilot. etc. etc. etc. The gamers probably don´t understand what you are asking. They just need a pretty map so that they can find the way back to an airfield. Keep up the work, it looks like a very good start. I would suggest that you keep as close as possible to a common format, either one that is available in printed form, or as represented in a modern glass cockpit. As most users are limited to small PC screens keep it uncluttered, or allow information layers to be turned on and off. Alan -----Original Message----- From: HB-GRAL Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:07 AM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Mapping Airspace Hi all To improve our map resources with further data I started an experiment with free available airspace data. Actually this is far from being a good map and finished design, it is just a start to implement (unofficial!) airspace information: http://maptest.fgx.ch/navaid.html I need probably some advice from real pilots around here for what is useful to map for FlightGear airspace, and how this should be displayed. I think I am aware of regular ICAO graphics definitions etc. But I dont want to design well known (and also free available) maps, I just want to develop a design as a "overview" and some really necessary items i.e. for learning the basics or whatelse. There is no RFC for what I am doing here, I am just playing around with data and an new Mapnik Server and ask for discussion and contribution. (Notice, my new signature since I send this links to the list and elsewhere: Please do not use any of this material for real navigation! NEVER. Do only use this to help developing and improving the design of my maps ;-). Cheers, Yves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
