Hi, On 02/25/2012 10:22 PM, HB-GRAL wrote: > What are you waiting, go for it! When I can help to keep the monster > small, I will try to do it. From my experience building scenery I would > say ... building Western Finland in a good matter will take approximate > six months when you’re fast (while making the monster small will take > two or three days).
I'm not waiting, I'm on my way :). The issue for me is less the compiling part but the handling part with everything included. I have never had any contact with GIS stuff and all the concepts and terminology is very foreign to me. It will take a while until I dug through all the specific lingo and how to use the tools. Then I have some practical issues to figure out, e.g. that the GIS software I tried runs extremely slow on my machine. It takes literally minutes to build the screen after every move, zoom, etc. > Where have you been looking for? I can provide you some GPL compliant > data when it is necessary. Just send me a note or ask at the forum. Actually, I have asked another user who offered the data a short while ago and such has Alral publicly in the EFTP thread. Trouble is, SRTM seems not to go beyond 61°N, so I was googling a couple of hours for "elevation data Finland" and found only one source which I am not clear about the licensing. >> You cannot publish free software and then try to blackmail people into >> doing stuff the way you want it. That's stupid and ridiculous. > > I think no one is going to blackmail anyone recently. I’ve never seen > censorship here before and I don’t like such approaches at all. But of > course, like the GPL discussion shows, this project follows some rules. > In my personal view it is not stupid and ridiculous to HELP new > developers to follow this rules. This was specifically an answer to Kreuzritter's suggestion to remove all links to custom scenery from all official FG websites to force people to create scenery for the central database. I would consider this kinda blackmailing or trying to force people into something. Of course, the project follows some rules and I don't have any problems with the fact that the scenery database is GPL'd and thus contributions must be GPL'd too. I would only have a problem with any attempt to subdue custom scenery, because IMHO, for the user it doesn't matter if the scenery is GPL'd, PD or any other license that allows for (cost-)free distribution and use. For the user it only matters to have pretty scenery. Tervehdys Suomesta / greetings from Finland, Stefan -- Stefan Gofferje | Web: http://stefan.gofferje.net/ (sgofferj/OH-SW) | Projects: http://www.saakeskus.fi/ | Com1: IAX2/k-tanco.louhen-sudet.fi/stefan FG OSBS, Opensuse 12.1, GeForce GTX560, Phenom X4 3200, 8GB RAM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
