On Tuesday 22 May 2007 17:52, Curtis Olson wrote: > There are a couple things I can say in reply here. First the 3 arcsec data > is *huge* and in and of itself will overwhelm your system's ability to draw > all that data. We simplify the data ... probably 1000x to make it > renderable. A bit too simplified in my opinion, but I can see why.
> The 1 arcsec data is nice, but again, in order to make it > workable within FlightGear, we would have to simplify it down to about the > resolution we currently have, so the net gain would be minimal, even if you > started with the higher res data set. Isn't 1 arcsec only offered for the contential United States? Another question: how possible would it be to switch to ossimPlanet for the terrain visualization in FlightGear? Ampere ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
