Hi Robert,

> ChunkLOD is not CLOD, it's a static paged database, which really is
> far less use than what the OSG provides natively with its
> DatabasePager with VirtualPlanetBuilder generating the databases.

Exactly, your current implementation is much better than the old OSG
ready ones you can find at VTP.

> As for CLOD implementations, most don't scale well, don't handle
> geocentric databases, and most don't perform particular well in
> comparison to static paged databases.
> Personally I think CLOD is not as useful as it once was, the balance
> between GPU power and bandwidth/CPU power has drastically altered in
> the last five years, what made sense five years ago really doesn't
> these days.

Ok.

> But by all means go spend time on stuff that isn't really useful...

I rather would like to contribute vpb with useful stuff.  IMHO there
is yet room for improvement, and I would be more than happy to
contribute. If just we had better documentation. ;-)

Regards.

-- A.
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