[Flightgear-devel] Automake

2005-03-01 Thread Jon Berndt
I'm restructuring the JSBSim directories in my local development environment, in hopes that it will simplify the development task and allow easier comprehension of the file structure. I'm learning about the autoconf/automake process. Right now I'm trying to learn about the Makefile.am files. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nav0/Nav1 course tracking and ILS approach code corrections

2005-03-01 Thread David Luff
On 27/02/2005 at 22:51 Hans-Georg Wunder wrote: Hi all, some days ago, I have made some proposals to correct errors in flightgear. Now, I would like to know, íf this is the right procedure to add code to the cvs or if there is an other way defined ?? The best way is to send it directly to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nav0/Nav1 course tracking and ILS approach code corrections

2005-03-01 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Luff wrote: On 27/02/2005 at 22:51 Hans-Georg Wunder wrote: Hi all, some days ago, I have made some proposals to correct errors in flightgear. Now, I would like to know, íf this is the right procedure to add code to the cvs or if there is an other way defined ?? The best way is to

[Flightgear-devel] Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery populating?

2005-03-01 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
Hi all, I've accidentally come into those POI (Point Of Interest) files for TomTom GPS systems which carry a very big amount of informations regarding many things laying around the world (restaurants, fuel stations, railroad stations, cinemas, schools, hotels ...). Those files are easily

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery populating?

2005-03-01 Thread cmetzler
I've accidentally come into those POI (Point Of Interest) files for TomTom GPS systems which carry a very big amount of informations regarding many things laying around the world (restaurants, fuel stations, railroad stations, cinemas, schools, hotels ...). Those files are easily

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery populating?

2005-03-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tuesday 01 March 2005 18:39: * * Roberto Inzerillo -- Tuesday 01 March 2005 17:16: I am starting to build some 3d models of the most common gas stations and hotels around my city. Please consider contributing them to the database. Yes. But please concentrate on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery

2005-03-01 Thread Martin Spott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a *lot* of ongoing work on getting more ground structures into the FG scenery, however. Jon Stockill and Martin Spott have built a master database for ground scenery object locations and shared models to represent them. [...] I don't know that an official

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery

2005-03-01 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Quoting Martin Spott : If I may quote Frederic Bouvier (regarding FGSD): It shouldn't be too difficult. Just a matter of wrapping up the FGSD_TriangleObject class into a main function. but nobody did that. Work in (slow) progress. -Fred

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery populating?

2005-03-01 Thread cmetzler
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tuesday 01 March 2005 18:39: Please consider contributing them to the database. Yes. But please concentrate on *landmarks*: Buildings and structures you actually see from an aircraft. Things that help with orientation and allow to recognize unique locations. Try

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery

2005-03-01 Thread cmetzler
Martin Spott wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both Jon and I have written code to do this iteratively for a list of lat/lon locations (I think Jon used Perl; I used Python). Sadly, it requires running FlightGear and is slow; but at least it's hands-off. If I may quote Frederic Bouvier

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery populating?

2005-03-01 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
Hello Chris, Did anyone walked this way before? Not with TomTom POI files that I'm aware of. There is a *lot* of ongoing work on getting more ground structures into the FG scenery, however. Jon Stockill and Martin Spott have built a master database for ground scenery object locations

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery populating?

2005-03-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 19:34:20 +0100 (MET), Roberto wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I also noticed that those POI files are generally distributed free with very relaxed licenses. But this is the crux of the biscuit. What, specifically, is the license? Very relaxed isn't detailed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery

2005-03-01 Thread Martin Spott
Melchior FRANZ wrote: Yes. But please concentrate on *landmarks*: Buildings and structures you actually see from an aircraft. Things that help with orientation and allow to recognize unique locations. Correct, but don't limit to landmarks only. Several remarkable/unique buildings alias eye

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery

2005-03-01 Thread Martin Spott
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Quoting Martin Spott : If I may quote Frederic Bouvier (regarding FGSD): It shouldn't be too difficult. Just a matter of wrapping up the FGSD_TriangleObject class into a main function. but nobody did that. Work in (slow) progress. Hehe, I wrote this

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery

2005-03-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Martin Spott -- Tuesday 01 March 2005 23:56: Melchior FRANZ wrote: Yes. But please concentrate on *landmarks*: Buildings and structures you actually see from an aircraft. Things that help with orientation and allow to recognize unique locations. Correct, but don't limit to landmarks