Hi there, --- On Fri, 26/6/09, Andrew Gorman <andrew.gor...@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> From: Andrew Gorman <andrew.gor...@xtra.co.nz> > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear Newsletter July 2009 > To: "FlightGear user discussions" <flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Received: Friday, 26 June, 2009, 10:27 AM > hi Chris, > > great to hear from you! > Its a beautiful 6 degrees C here, not bad considering :) Brrrrr! We spent 3 months in Edinburgh UK last year - we had a few days in autumn where the days were fine and sunny, with a 'high' of 3. > Guess its nice and > warm over there in Australia? 19C and cloudy, expecting rain later, could be worse. > Have seen your updates to the new airport....very nice > indeed. I havent had > much chance to get back inot developing scenery for NZ, the > last one was > Wellinton airport, its still un-textured and hiding on a > hard drive > somewhere....somewhere :) > > The dev list is great but I cant understand half of waht > they are on about > so kept to this list.... it has been very quite, unitl > someone started > making Aussie scenery that is :) When can we expect it to > be released to the > masses? Not sure. I have to fix some elevation data for the Brisbane CBD, as all the tall buildings have skewed the average elevation for many of the points there. The result is that my buildings, which were placed within a few metres of the real thing, sometimes sit 20-25% buried in the terrain, because the elevations are erroneous. The raw SRTM-30 elevation data is like that wherever groups of large tall buildings occur - in fg you can sometimes see lumps in the terrain in CBD areas of larger cities; that'll be where the tallest buildings sit... > Christchurch airport is undergoing some face lifts at the > moment so I might > actually have a crack at the one...that and its about 10 > mins from where I > live (actually Wigram airbase is about 2 mins from where I > live also so that > might be another one to consider....its been closed > down now so its > unoperational but this is FG and anything goes...right?). I guess so. Just might have to watch out for the new housing estate straddling the main runway and threshold areas on approach... :-) > Well, am supposed to be working so better go and do > something I guess :) Work? Whats that? I'm doing on-call part-time casual drafting for the engineering firm I worked for here previously. Trust my girl and I to choose to throw in our full-time jobs, and travel to the UK just as a recession was hitting! > Stay in touch either via this list or private email....who > knows it might > actually kick some lift back into the list :) Lets hope so! Not to be disrespectful, but a project needs users - reading the devel list is frustrating because I don't have a clue what they're on about most of the time... :-) > slainte, > > Andy > > Ps. would be great to get together and work on something > for FG...the > interent is a great thing and now its getting > quicker..well, for Aus anyway > (mutter mutter, fibre optics, mutter mutter....) > > > > > > Hey there Andy, > > > > A newsletter would be a very good idea. I'd be keen to > contribute, in one > > form or another... > > > > Andy mate, I totally agree on your comments re: > fg-users list. It is a > > very quiet list, but perhaps that is because there are > not that many users > > who aren't developers? The risk is that the project > becomes so developer > > centric that potential users turn away to other more > user friendly > > projects. > > > > Anyway, good to see you're still on the list. > > > > How is NZ? Have you had much chance to do scenery > improvements over there? > > I've managed to get terragear running, so might be > able to help out fellow > > Australasians to finish building their scenery > improvements. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Chris W, YBBN/BNE. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users > Access Yahoo!7 Mail on your mobile. Anytime. Anywhere. Show me how: http://au.mobile.yahoo.com/mail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
