Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane simulator development

2009-11-10 Thread Bob Faulkner
> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:23:13 +1100 > From: Scott Hamilton > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane simulator development > To: FlightGear developers discussions > > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/pla

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane simulator development

2009-11-10 Thread Oliver Schröder
Hi. We could build our own server, which collects the data from all sources and make it available to flightgear clients. I see two benefits of this approach: 1) we have all sources, and 2) we don't abuse the public services As I don't see any complications in fetching the data, I would volunteer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane simulator development

2009-11-10 Thread Oliver Schroeder
Hi. We could build our own server, which collects the data from all sources and make it available to flightgear clients. I see two benefits of this approach: 1) we have all sources, and 2) we don't abuse the public services As I don't see any complications in fetching the data, I would volunteer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane simulator development

2009-11-09 Thread Scott Hamilton
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 17:56 -0500, Bob Faulkner wrote: I notice that our local (Australian) national meteorology department lists several international hurricane and cyclone warning centres, and from what I see of the NOAA NHC it seems to only report in it's local area. Is t

[Flightgear-devel] Hurricane simulator development

2009-11-09 Thread Bob Faulkner
This message is to announce my intentions to develop a hurricane simulation system for FlightGear. I've done only preliminary work on locating data resources, and in exploring the source code to get a grasp of the different systems I'll have to interface with in FlightGear. This will be my first t