Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-29 Thread Martin Spott
Ralf Gerlich wrote: [...] This is quite a good field for improvement in FlightGear if you're unable to help with the coding. Let's see what comes around with Martin Spott's PostGIS server. I'm currently on my way populating the database. Curt, does the script

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-29 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott wrote: Ralf Gerlich wrote: [...] This is quite a good field for improvement in FlightGear if you're unable to help with the coding. Let's see what comes around with Martin Spott's PostGIS server. I'm currently on my way populating the database. Curt, does the script

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-29 Thread Martin Spott
Hello Curt, Curtis L. Olson wrote: There is room for preferencial adjustments as well. Once you start digging into a scenery build, you might come up with some of your own ideas and preferences for how things should be done. I'm unable to dig into scenery building myself I have because I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-29 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott wrote: Hello Curt, Curtis L. Olson wrote: There is room for preferencial adjustments as well. Once you start digging into a scenery build, you might come up with some of your own ideas and preferences for how things should be done. I'm unable to dig into scenery

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-29 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Martin Spott wrote: I'm unable to dig into scenery building myself I have because I didn't [...] Oh man, so many mistakes in an EMail that short :-/ Was my response a satisfactory answer for you then? I'm not sure I can parse your message here? You aren't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-29 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis L. Olson wrote: BTW: Was my response a satisfactory answer for you then? Yes, I think it was. I'll simply pick all the VMAP0 layers exactly as described in this shell script and we'll see if the result matches our expectations :-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-29 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: The GSHHS shorelines for example are stored in the database as well. This gives everyone the chance to adjust their favourite river mouth to match the actual shoreline. Ah, I forgot one: After the landcover part of the database has reached a satisfactory state we could

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-25 Thread Martin Spott
Sergio wrote: But look carefull at the lake and don't fall into it ! We don't have lakes that huge as lake constance here in the Cologne area - still some of them large enough to sink a small aircraft :-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-20 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: Now I'm done with my PPL - man, am I happy now I mean: I passed the test with success, I'll go and 'fetch' the paper next wednesday and I can't wait flying around where _I_ want to ;-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-20 Thread Sergio
Martin Spott a crit: Martin Spott wrote: Now I'm done with my PPL - man, am I happy now I mean: I passed the test with success, I'll go and 'fetch' the paper next wednesday and I can't wait flying around where _I_ want to ;-) Martin. Good, good... But look

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-19 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Gerard Robin schrieb: Great, You probably did spend a lot of time. Yes, we did ;-) However, the digitising effort is quite relaxing - clearing your mind of any thoughts which may bother you. Especially after a hard day at work ;-) And we learnt a lot about our own area - and still

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-19 Thread Gerard Robin
Le vendredi 19 août 2005 à 09:27 +0200, Ralf Gerlich a écrit : Yes, we did ;-) However, the digitising effort is quite relaxing - clearing your mind of any thoughts which may bother you. Especially after a hard day at work ;-) And we learnt a lot about our own area - and still keep

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-19 Thread Martin Spott
Ralf Gerlich wrote: As soon as I get time I'll document the process somewhat, hoping to get others started. This is quite a good field for improvement in FlightGear if you're unable to help with the coding. Let's see what comes around with Martin Spott's PostGIS server. Sorry for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-18 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Oliver C. schrieb: Very nice done. Looks great. Thanks ;-) Where can i download it? I'm in the process of organising some place for the scenery files. I'll send the link when I got one. However as far as the plans go the scenery will go into the PostGIS-Database Martin Spott is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-18 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Where can i download it? The scenery is available for download at http://web44.netzwerteserver2.de/195.0.html I'll try to prepare the files in a form fgadmin can grok. Until then you need to adapt the FG_SCENERY-environment variable or the --fg-scenery option passed to fgfs. Enjoy!

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-18 Thread Gerard Robin
Le jeudi 18 août 2005 à 21:39 +0200, Ralf Gerlich a écrit : Hi, Where can i download it? The scenery is available for download at http://web44.netzwerteserver2.de/195.0.html I'll try to prepare the files in a form fgadmin can grok. Until then you need to adapt the

[Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-17 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hello, some time ago I posted that I had some project for custom scenery around Lake Constance in the most southern part of Germany going. Now that the legal issues are solved I'm proud to present the first comparison screenshots :-) http://web44.netzwerteserver2.de/196.0.html The standard

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery for Lake Constance

2005-08-17 Thread Oliver C.
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 20:12, Ralf Gerlich wrote: Hello, some time ago I posted that I had some project for custom scenery around Lake Constance in the most southern part of Germany going. Now that the legal issues are solved I'm proud to present the first comparison screenshots :-)