Re: [Flightgear-devel] Thumbnail images for aiports

2009-05-25 Thread Martin Spott
Ron Jensen wrote: > Martin, thanks for the tutorial. I didn't really know how to utilize > qgis... You're welcome. QGIS is a really neat tool and, last mut not least, it serves as a nice frontend to GRASS (yet it doesn't save you from learning GRASS from the ground up ;-) I pretty much co

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Thumbnail images for aiports

2009-05-25 Thread Ron Jensen
Martin, thanks for the tutorial. I didn't really know how to utilize qgis... On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 14:12 +, Martin Spott wrote: > 3.b) Insert the WMS URL from the 'mapserver.flightgear.org' main page This had me fooled for a minute. The url is http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ms Qgis will ap

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Thumbnail images for aiports

2009-05-25 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > 2.) From the menu select Layer -> Add WMD Layer ^^^ Oh yeah, should have been "WMS", Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Thumbnail images for aiports

2009-05-25 Thread Martin Spott
"Yan Seiner" wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 2:14 pm, Martin Spott wrote: >> Martin Spott wrote: >> BTW, this also works perfectly by picking the "WMS" URL from the >> main page and droppping it into QGIS or any >> other WMS-capable desktop GIS, > > Assume I'm a decent programmer but a complete idi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Thumbnail images for aiports

2009-05-20 Thread Yan Seiner
On Wed, May 20, 2009 2:14 pm, Martin Spott wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: > >> It it's just for the airfield layout and you don't care too much about >> the surrounding land cover, then you could always pick it from our >> Landcover-DB/MapServer. Take this one, for example: >> >> >> http://mapserv

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Thumbnail images for aiports

2009-05-20 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > It it's just for the airfield layout and you don't care too much about > the surrounding land cover, then you could always pick it from our > Landcover-DB/MapServer. Take this one, for example: > > > http://mapserver.flightgear.org/map/?lon=-97.03769&lat=32.89724&zoom=14&l

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Thumbnail images for aiports

2009-05-20 Thread Martin Spott
"Yan Seiner" wrote: > Does anyone have a legal source for getting images of airports based on > the data in the index.txt file that ships with the dataset? It it's just for the airfield layout and you don't care too much about the surrounding land cover, then you could always pick it from our Lan

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Thumbnail images for aiports

2009-05-20 Thread Lee Qid
Hi Yan, Take a look at the apt.dat file. It contains all information on the airport layout. You can use that data to draw up a map of the airport. You might also take a look at the ATC aircraft and the 777, since they've got an airport map display afik. And if I'm guessing correctly they access t