Re: [Flightgear-devel] Openstreetmap v. G**gl
The coordinates for the runway ends for the ES03 Hova airport John Denker mentioned are: 17.727745 59.720191 17.712885 59.723231 The other airport wasn't available unfortunately, and I don't have TaxiDraw to fix and send this in. Consider airports may appear misplaced for two reasons: a) the vmap0 scenery isn't 'bad', but it's often less accurate than the correct apt.dat scenery; b) there is a lot of guesswork done for the apt.dat scenery, even with major airports. Heck, the KPDX layout in 8.50 is awful. The solution is to acknowledge, identify and fix as we can. Fortunately, the number of users who have started up at ES03 is probably very small - and the number of users who have noticed it's misplaced won't be much larger. You'd have to have local knowledge of Stockholm. At the same time, you've got small airports like 59S which have been paved over for years which are still in the database. Again, that drives me crazy but only because I'm familiar with the Portland area. For the USA, there is an interesting website chronicling some of these airports: http://www.airfields-freeman.com/ Cheers John -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Openstreetmap v. G**gl
Am 16.09.11 07:28, schrieb J. Holden: For the USA, there is an interesting website chronicling some of these airports: http://www.airfields-freeman.com/ Cheers John Hi John I provide a ESRI Shapefile on my server of the airports of ourairports.com database http://maptest.fgx.ch/data/ourairports.zip There is a column type, and some airports have value closed. All this data is in public domain, if someone wants to play around with it or want to check something. Cheers, Yves -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Openstreetmap v. G**gl
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, J. Holden wrote: For the USA, there is an interesting website chronicling some of these airports: http://www.airfields-freeman.com/ John, thanks for that link! I'm learning all sorts of neat things about the airfields that used to live in and around Tacoma, WA. :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
