Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport names misspelled (sweden)

2012-06-09 Thread Jan Mattsson
Shouldn't that be "Norrtälje Mellingeholm"? 2012/6/9 Tommy Karlstedt : > {"code" => "ESSN", "iata" => "", "short name" => "Norrtalge Mellingholm", > "long name" => "", "lon" => "59.732769", "lat" => "018.696392", "city" => "", > "country" => "Sweden", "runways" => ["25"]}, > > CHANGE "Norrtalge

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fair practice & autorisations

2012-02-15 Thread Jan Mattsson
The concept of ownership does not work well with GPL. /J 2012/2/15 kreuzritter2000 : > I agree he is the owner of the model, but he is not the owner of the > FlightGear project. -- Virtualization & Cloud Management Using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Content protection for modders?

2011-08-25 Thread Jan Mattsson
2011/8/25 : > You wouldn't even need to do that - how can you have a closed format when > the code for reading it would need to be open source? An encrypted file? The whole idea certainly seems contradictory to the spirit of the project. /JanM ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] carrier questions

2010-12-03 Thread Jan Mattsson
1. 9 degrees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz_class_aircraft_carrier 2. 3-4 degrees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_US_Navy_carrier_operations /JanM 2010/12/3 Curtis Olson : > I have a couple questions about the Nimitz for the carrier folks: > 1. What is the exact angle offset of the lan

Re: [Flightgear-devel] C++ for Simulation

2010-09-17 Thread Jan Mattsson
One more "job hat" response: good that you have tests. Without tests, change will always be scary. It doesn't have to be. Yes, they take time to write, perhaps more time than the code itself, but the alternative is even worse. Tests are an executable specification. As for the move from C to C++...

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear's Best Features

2010-04-23 Thread Jan Mattsson
2010/4/23 Arnt Karlsen : > > ..earlier on, I believe Microsoft used a cylinder model to > model planet Earth, did they switch before FSX? > Apparently they did: http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showtopic=224048 /JanM -

[Flightgear-devel] Driving sim

2009-07-31 Thread Jan Mattsson
Apropos the recent discussion about driving sims: vdrift.net seems to handling that very nicely. It's GPL'd. I suggest a packaging of their focused efforts would be more efficient than a separate half-baked effort, but what do I know... /JanM -