On 7 Jan 2013, at 14:42, Stuart Buchanan <stuar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could someone explain what's going on regarding a world scenery rebuild?
>
> James' comments (and others I've seen) imply that there's a rebuild being
> planned for the near future. Could someone tell me what's going on, or
> point me in the right direction to find out myself?
>
> It would be wonderful if (say) we're planning to provide CORINE data for
> Europe.
Martin and Pete have the details, but roughly, there is a stable branch of new
TerraGear, and Martin is re-building the world-scenery using it. This takes a
long time (days, weeks), and when issues are encountered, Pete has to isolate
the issue, fix the toolchain, and then Martin has to restart. There's been a
couple of iterations of that (I believe), starting in November / December
sometime. This is time-consuming but getting back to the point of a reliable
tool-chain which can process the entire world-data set without issues (or at
least, with issues no worse than the current build!) is an important foundation
step.
Once we have re-generated the scenery using the new code, other steps such as
CORINE and incorporating newer airport data, revising the BTG format, and many
other new developments become possible. But until we reach a rough parity with
the old toolchain, they need to wait.
Again, I'll let Martin and Pete speak as to their exact status.
Regards,
James
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