Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some community comments

2010-12-23 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > There are many things you could think of wrt. supporting collaborative > Scenery development like on-the-fly map-rendering of landcover-submissions (so people can check how their submission is going to be recived), working towards more different textures to serve

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New release

2010-12-23 Thread Dave L
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 8:12 PM, John Denker wrote: > > To work properly, atis.cxx needs not only the standard ATIS phraseology > but also the /names/ of the ATIS/AWOS sites (usually but not necessarily > airports). If you include the names of all US airports, the .vce file > has more than 2300

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some community comments

2010-12-23 Thread Martin Spott
Adrian Musceac wrote: > I have only the highest expectations from your project, however in order > to get many people involved and avoiding the same lone wolf approach, You're having a valid point here. Anyhow, the "lone wolf" is in no way an "aproach" but instead much better charaterized as sort

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git version of today

2010-12-23 Thread Donn Washburn
Hey Group; I have had a problem mentioned today concerning PKGGLIBDIR. This was from a effort with cmake and ccmake. fgfs compiled completely but lacking a make check function I directly installed it. Tried it and got > Base package check failed ... Found version [none] at: @PKGLIBDIR > Pl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New release

2010-12-23 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Thursday 23 December 2010 21:12:16 John Denker wrote: > > Maybe if you have a text-to-speech system set up it works properly, > > but I assume most people downloading the new release will not have > > that setup by default. > > Agreed. Getting TTS to work "live" (as opposed to batch) is way m

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New release

2010-12-23 Thread John Denker
On 12/23/2010 05:33 AM, Dave L wrote: > At the moment, the spoken ATIS makes little sense anyway since the > phaseology was corrected a while ago but the extra words were not > recorded. Well, actually the needed words are available. Long ago I wrote a script to run the words through the festi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git of fgdata today

2010-12-23 Thread Martin Spott
Torsten Dreyer wrote: > I saw many reports that mapserver is a faster than gitorious. Thanks, Thanks to our sponsor (-> "Telascience") ! Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git of fgdata today

2010-12-23 Thread Gijs de Rooy
> just using the default - ./fgfs I get this error. > > Base package check failed ... Found version [none] at: @PKGLIBDIR > Please upgrade to version: 2.0.0 You need to tell FG where your data directory is. Do that with --fg-root=/usr/share/flightgear in your commandline, or set FG_ROOT in yo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git of fgdata today

2010-12-23 Thread Donn Washburn
On 12/23/2010 01:14 PM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > Am 23.12.10 19:35, schrieb Donn Washburn: >> On 12/23/2010 12:24 PM, Gijs de Rooy wrote: FGDATA site seems to be down or have problems. I have tried about 5 times over time to get fgdata with the same error. >>> Gitorious was down since ear

[Flightgear-devel] git of fgdata today

2010-12-23 Thread Donn Washburn
On 12/23/2010 01:14 PM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > Am 23.12.10 19:35, schrieb Donn Washburn: >> On 12/23/2010 12:24 PM, Gijs de Rooy wrote: FGDATA site seems to be down or have problems. I have tried about 5 times over time to get fgdata with the same error. >>> Gitorious was down since ear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git of fgdata today

2010-12-23 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 23.12.10 19:35, schrieb Donn Washburn: > On 12/23/2010 12:24 PM, Gijs de Rooy wrote: >>> FGDATA site seems to be down or have problems. I have tried about 5 >>> times over time to get fgdata with the same error. >> Gitorious was down since earlier today. However, it appears to be up >> again no

[Flightgear-devel] Do Shader animations support Conditions?

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Brown
I was attempting to install a few shaders, based on internal or external view, but I have not been able to make it work. Can someone let me know if you can use a in a animation ? Thanks, Peter -- Learn how Oracle Real

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git of fgdata today

2010-12-23 Thread Donn Washburn
On 12/23/2010 12:24 PM, Gijs de Rooy wrote: > > FGDATA site seems to be down or have problems. I have tried about 5 > > times over time to get fgdata with the same error. > > Gitorious was down since earlier today. However, it appears to be up > again now. > > You can still obtain fgdata from the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some community comments

2010-12-23 Thread Jacob Burbach
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:29 PM, J. Holden wrote: > I appreciate the ephithet being hurled in my direction, especially because > all we are pointing out is that CORINE data should eventually be part of the > land cover database anyways, which may deprecate some (but not necessarily > all) of t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git of fgdata today

2010-12-23 Thread Gijs de Rooy
> FGDATA site seems to be down or have problems. I have tried about 5 > times over time to get fgdata with the same error. Gitorious was down since earlier today. However, it appears to be up again now. You can still obtain fgdata from the mapserver clone though, if Gitorious still doesn't wo

[Flightgear-devel] git of fgdata today

2010-12-23 Thread Donn Washburn
FGDATA site seems to be down or have problems. I have tried about 5 times over time to get fgdata with the same error. -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email:" n5...@comcast.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5...@arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: b

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some community comments

2010-12-23 Thread J. Holden
I appreciate the ephithet being hurled in my direction, especially because all we are pointing out is that CORINE data should eventually be part of the land cover database anyways, which may deprecate some (but not necessarily all) of the third-party scenery projects currently being produced, C

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some community comments

2010-12-23 Thread Jacob Burbach
>> [...] Still, none of the third party sceneries directly help the goal >> of adding data to the server or helping fix TerraGear to push out a >> new World Scenery package [...] I think the key word here is "directly". No, they may not, even cannot, "directly" contribute land cover to the data se

Re: [Flightgear-devel] EzineArticles.com

2010-12-23 Thread Vivian Meazza
George > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Chris Wilkinson > wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I reported author 'Dan H Freeman' to that website as being misleading > about > > his software and running a scam, explaining the situation with > FlightGear > > and ProFlightSim. They asked if I was a 'rep

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some community comments (was: Scenery Corner)

2010-12-23 Thread syd adams
Sticking my 2 cents in here , i cant take anything on the forum too seriously , probably just from bad forum experiences overall. The mailing list was always the place I looked for development news , but like Vivian mentioned , that doesn't seem to happen much since the move to Git . Would be nice

Re: [Flightgear-devel] EzineArticles.com

2010-12-23 Thread George Patterson
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Hi there, > > I reported author 'Dan H Freeman' to that website as being misleading about > his software and running a scam, explaining the situation with FlightGear > and ProFlightSim. They asked if I was a 'representative' of FlightGear.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New release

2010-12-23 Thread Dave L
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:12 AM, John Denker wrote: > It may not be an entirely good idea to release a FlightGear version without > any usable ATIS. > > It appears that ATC/atis.cxx is a stub. It contains only one line of code. > > Meanwhile there is ye olde ATCDCL/atis.cxx, which contains code

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some community comments

2010-12-23 Thread thorsten . i . renk
Martin: > This is a rather incomplete and therefore, at least to my opinion, > pretty unfortunate and unsuitable representation of a certain status > quo. It wasn't meant to be a representation of any status quo - it is what you (among others) have been communicating (at least to me, given privat

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some community comments (was: Scenery Corner)

2010-12-23 Thread Vivian Meazza
Thorsten wrote: > > I also find it rather interesting to read something about the 'invisible' > work behind the scenery - thank you for letting us know. It's sometimes > difficult to appreciate the work that is not directly seen, and it helps a > lot if you tell us. > > Thanks for the hard work.