Jon Elson wrote: > Curtis L. Olson wrote: > > >> JD Fenech wrote: >> >> >> >>> That's exatly what they want! They _NEED_ to be included now.I want to >>> include it more than ever, then send them an email notifying them of >>> this fact, and that they have absolutely no say in whether or not it stays. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> We don't need to go out of our way to piss people off. Go get the >> locations off google maps (existing available data), do your thing, let >> it be. I don't want anyone setting their sites on FlightGear as a group >> of potential trouble makers and jerks. If someone at a high level >> wanted to make life difficult for us, they could. Let's just do our >> thing and be nice. :-) >> >> >> > No kidding! In some countries, this could get you executed! > International publishing > of the exact location of prime terrorist targets. Just try something > like this in China. > > Jon > Good thing I'm not in China, and plan never to go there if I can avoid it.
I wasn't asking for secret information. I basically asked for publicly available information about something that is an obvious target visible from 10 miles away (a federal interstate runs 10 miles from it, and a national highway runs right through it). Hiding accurate geopositional data isn't going to stop someone with the ability to knock down a pylon if they can just walk up to it. After I was told no, I figured just to use information from the FAA obstruction database. It's technically public domain information, as it comes from the US gov't. To be honest, I was hoping that the fellow would've pointed me at some sort of public domain data that I could use. I didn't need high resolution data, either, just enough to place things in the scenery. I don't mind asking for information nicely, and I'll accept no for an answer, but when someone reports it to the police, that's almost parallel to calling my request a crime. To be honest, security is a good thing, but I'll sacrifice a little security if the end result is that my neighbor isn't suspicious of my every move. This is why I try to avoid the cities anyway. Too many people, kind of hard to keep track of intentions. As a final aside, would any of the admins to the project like to lend some advice or aid on this? Perhaps someone could contact the person I did and reiterate what this project is, and that it's an affront to human decency to behave as if we were in 1984. I'm not sure if I recommend this, as this guy is probably quite anal, and for all I know would report anyone if they mentioned anything about flight simulation. I don't know. Any thoughts from those who have been there? JD ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
