On Tuesday 26 September 2006 21:56, Durk Talsma wrote: > On Tuesday 26 September 2006 01:16, Milijana Babovic wrote: > > What is the easiest way to find coordinates for parking places when > > create parking.xml? I tried to create parking.xml using the airport chart > > for parking places, but there are big differences (coordinates from > > airport chart are very often away from airport place). > > On Tuesday 26 September 2006 14:26, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > > How does the AI code handle taxi-ing ? The document on the page only > > refers to aircraft and flights. Do I need to define runways/taxiways for > > airports in a separate file, or does it pick this information up from > > apt.dat ? > > On Tuesday 26 September 2006 14:34, Darko Tasovac wrote: > > I am also interesting in Taxinodes and TaxiwaySegments. How do you > > determine the nodes? > > The three questions above more or less relate to the same issue, so I'll > try and explain how the taxi system works. I'm planning to write a more > elaborate tutorial later on, so hopefully this email will give you guys a > head start. >
[SNIP] Just as a few notes following up my original tutorial: First, I've just found an incredible source of background images / reference material for taxidraw editing: Google-earth. Until today I've been using the web browser based maps.google.com as reference material, but this has the disadvantage that you can't save the images[1]. Today I installed the standalone google earth program (a bit late, I know), and found that this program actually allows you to save the image you are viewing. This image can be opened in taxidraw, and aligned to the airport you're editing by applying the calibration procedure. I've justs downloaded an image of Hong Kong's Chep Lap Kok airport, and the image matches the FlightGear / taxidraw image like a dream[2]. Secondly, in the original tutorial I warned being cautious when using taxidraw for ground network editing, because that part of the code was still quite instable. Sine then, I have fixed several bugs, which makes taxidraw "almost" stable now in this respect. There is still a nagging problem in the undo function, which I haven't located yet. The bottom line: while I continue to remain cautious during editing, I would recommend checking out the latest version of taxidraw from CVS, for those of you interested in building AI ground networks. Okay back to editing. :-) Cheers, Durk [1] There appear to be several other advantages of using google earth over google maps. Google maps has limited coverage in certain places, whereas I haven't found a place (i.e. airport) of which I couldn't find incredebly detailed maps. [2] I've been working on building a steady collection of AI ground networks. My intention is to release them shortly. However, most of them still require fine tuning, clean-up, etc etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
