When I originally added ground-use support to TerraGear many years
ago, the Canada/US Great Lakes worked fine: we simply treated the
water as a special ground use, used the DEM to get the elevation,
clipped it against the VMAP0 coastlines, and for good measure, Curt
had written code to average out
David Megginson wrote:
[...] I think someone
originally had a grandiose plan to build a water network, and wanted
eventually to model locks, rapids, waterfalls, etc. to account for
changes in water surface elevation, but that never happened, and to be
honest, we should never have let the
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Martin Spott martin.sp...@mgras.net wrote:
In the meantime we've made a polygon set to seamlessly fill The Great
Lakes Void - which is likely going to address the issue you've
mentioned. But there are still a few other places which are presumably
affected by
On Sunday 2010-03-28 David Megginson wrote:
Now, quite a few years later, the Great Lakes are still
broken in our default scenery, and as a result, FlightGear
looks ridiculous to any new user who comes and tries flying
in near cities such as Toronto, Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland,
Detroit,
Quite a few years ago we had a debate, because we had to choose
between two sets of shoreline data:
1. GSHSS was very nicely detailed (every little cove and point), but
about 1 mile off for the Great Lakes, leaving shoreline airports
either far inland or floating in the middle of a lake.
2.
David Megginson wrote:
Quite a few years ago we had a debate, because we had to choose
between two sets of shoreline data:
Nowadays we're in the fortunate position of being able to merge land
cover data from various sources.
The foundation is still VMap0 which I've loaded into a PostGIS
Very nice work! I remember when all land cover in FlightGear (other
than runways) was desert -- not sure why Curt picked a desert texture
(I think it had something to do with Prescott, AZ). Next, we were
able to separate land (always forest) from water. It's come a long
way since then.
All
David Megginson wrote:
[...] Next, we were able to separate land (always forest) from water.
reminds me of the history of Creation :-)
Martin.
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