On Wednesday 23 May 2012 10:23:12 Renk Thorsten wrote: > > Using the default random building density, the tiles that are loaded > > initially when sitting on the runway generates ~ 340k random > > buildings. > > We might be generating too many buildings then? > > The greater Los Angeles area has between 13 and 16 million inhabitants > (dependent on what you count). > > Assuming you haven't changed the visibility range from the startup default > of ~16 km yet, checking with satellite images you should get about 1/12 of > the greater LA urban area at startup, that means you generate 340k * 12 = 4 > M houses in the greater LA area. The average number of people per household > in the LA area was about 2.9 in 2006, so we have just populated Greater LA > with ~12 million inhabitants - seems okay.
Besides being totally off topic, you can't do that direct comparison. First off, our default scenery lacks a lot of detail in the urban area boundaries in that area thus marking a far larger area as being urban -> a far larger area on which to generate buildings; second, the generated random buildings are a mixed set of residential and comercial/office buildings, so the math is a bit off there. > > Here's the catch: > > That's just assuming that the number of households per house is really 1 - > but I think this assumption doesn't hold in dense urban areas, you can > easily have 10 parties living in a larger building (even while I was living > in Durham, NC we had 14 households in one building - and Durham NC had > plenty of space to spare). Assuming for the sake of the argument that we > might have on average 5 households per building in a dense urban area, > we'd be overestimating the actual population by a factor 4.5. > > => use less, but somewhat larger buildings. Actualy the Geater LA + Inland Empire area should use more somewhat small buildings, as the overwhelming majority of the residential buildings in that area are individual houses, all the way E to San Bernardino. > > Cheers, > > * Thorsten Emilian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
