>The latest-and-greatest is posted on www.kde-apps.org. One of the screenshots >is a 3-D "approach" to the south side of Manhattan Island. (NYC is one of the >FG locations which is not so wonderful). OK, it is propietary but they give >this out for free. How do they generate such a picture? If they are indeed >creating this from NASA, USGS and other such (Public Domain) things, we >should be as well.
>I am downloading the lastest GoogleEarth and will see if these can be done >"anywhere" or they only have stuff individually drawn. I tried Jerusalem. There are no Geological Survey photos here but the 3D view is indeed generated. Buildings are flat just like in the "buildingblock" objects in FG. The resolution is similar but at least one can recognize where one is "flying". Not a big deal at 30000 feet in a jet but at 1000 feet in a Cessna, all the difference in the world. The New York view is not like the one shown but a similarly projected view but at higher resolution. The program has drawing tools if one wants to overly polygonal objects to a view. Nevertheless, better than buildingblocks. There are loads of options and toys. However, the text on the window is simply too small to read. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
