Arnt Karlsen wrote:
..IMHO, the wise thing to do is extend Robin's database format to do our
thing the way we wanna do it, and use that to win him over our way
exporting to his format, and ship him both. Robin's user's corrections
remains useful to us, even if they stick with their current forma
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:54:47 +0200, Harald wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Martin Spott wrote:
>
> > Erik Hofman wrote:
> >
> > > To my opinion the X-Plane format isn't qualified for accurate
> > > runway and taxiway layout.
> >
> > This is Harald's opinion as well as mine ! _But_: Our
Martin Spott wrote:
Erik Hofman wrote:
To my opinion the X-Plane format isn't qualified for accurate runway and
taxiway layout.
This is Harald's opinion as well as mine ! _But_: Our opinion on this
format actually does not change it. Right ?
And as long as FG sticks to rely on this X
Erik Hofman wrote:
> To my opinion the X-Plane format isn't qualified for accurate runway and
> taxiway layout.
This is Harald's opinion as well as mine ! _But_: Our opinion on this
format actually does not change it. Right ?
And as long as FG sticks to rely on this X-Plane data it makes little
Martin Spott wrote:
On the other hand it might be worthwhile to spend this effort once we
have a means to reliably convert airport layouts back and forth between
vector layout and X-Plane format.
To my opinion the X-Plane format isn't qualified for accurate runway and
taxiway layout. It's way
Harald JOHNSEN wrote:
> Except that the X-Plane format is just a bad hack todays and has reach
> its limitation. [...]
I know the file format very well as I've done lots of manual changes
with my favourite text editor - but what are you aiming at ?
Martin.
--
Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's ju
Martin Spott wrote:
...
It is no problem at all to convert a PDF into any other vector format
but I've found it very difficult to define charcteristics that
automagically can tell between runways, taxiways and other objects that
happen to be part of the chart. You always have to spend significan
"Ampere K. Hardraade" wrote:
> I have seen airport diagrams in PDF format for airports in countries other
> than the US. For example:
> http://www.sia.aviation-civile.gouv.fr/[...]
This is correct, the French approach is very progressive, as is the
Danish (http://www.slv.dk/Dokumenter/dscgi/ds.
On October 11, 2005 09:42 am, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:
> 1) by some kind of image processing following the Ghostview output.
> Of course, since the internal graphics is vector, it might be possible
> to infer more from various rendered resolutions.
>
> 2) Other approach would be to reverse engin
> Since FAA has airport diagrams in PDF format, would it be possible to extract
> taxiways information
BTW, the tower and the beacon, if any, can also be extracted from it,
as well as the windsocks, ILS hold lines etc.
> directly from a PDF file such as this
> http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0510/00375
Since FAA has airport diagrams in PDF format, would it be possible to extract
taxiways information directly from a PDF file such as this
http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0510/00375AD.PDF to produce taxiways usable in
FlightGear?
Ampere
___
Flightgear-devel
11 matches
Mail list logo
