Re: [Flightgear-devel] VMAP1 in Landcover-DB

2006-06-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Josh Babcock wrote: I say we issue everyone a GPS unit and start taking out own data :) It's being done already: http://www.free-map.org.uk/ Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VMAP1 in Landcover-DB

2006-06-15 Thread Martin Spott
Jon Stockill wrote: Josh Babcock wrote: I say we issue everyone a GPS unit and start taking out own data :) It's being done already: http://www.free-map.org.uk/ Well, Freemap data is from now on being contributed to the OpenStreetMap database. I must admit that I've never seen Freemap

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VMAP1 in Landcover-DB

2006-06-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Josh Babcock wrote: I say we issue everyone a GPS unit and start taking out own data :) It's being done already: http://www.free-map.org.uk/ Well, Freemap data is from now on being contributed to the OpenStreetMap database. I must admit that I've

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VMAP1 in Landcover-DB

2006-06-15 Thread Martin Spott
Jon Stockill wrote: Martin Spott wrote: I discovered this the other day - seems like it may be a useful resource for keeping track of this type of project: http://slashgeo.org/ Aye - this really is a valuable resource. Are they somehow affiliated with Slashdot or did they just pick a part

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VMAP1 in Landcover-DB

2006-06-15 Thread Martin Spott
Jon Stockill wrote: Is there any way people can help with this? As I already wrote in the previous posting Aside from that I'd be very happy if someone would beautify the visual apperance of the current Mapserver interface. 1.) The mapserver relies on JavaScript - and I've never done

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VMAP1 in Landcover-DB

2006-06-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Martin Spott wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Is there any way people can help with this? As I already wrote in the previous posting Aside from that I'd be very happy if someone would beautify the visual apperance of the current Mapserver interface. 1.) The mapserver relies on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VMAP1 in Landcover-DB

2006-06-15 Thread Martin Spott
Jon Stockill wrote: Martin Spott wrote: 1.) The mapserver relies on JavaScript - and I've never done that before. It would be nice if someone could completely eliminate the need for this disturbing Browse map checkbox, overall improvement is very much welcomed. I can highly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VMAP1 in Landcover-DB

2006-06-15 Thread Martin Spott
Jon Stockill wrote: Martin Spott wrote: 1.) The mapserver relies on JavaScript - and I've never done that before. It would be nice if someone could completely eliminate the need for this disturbing Browse map checkbox, overall improvement is very much welcomed. I can highly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VMAP1 in Landcover-DB

2006-06-15 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: There will be. Currently I'm waiting for someone giving the ok to move my DB to a more powerful machine but I think people can step upon the plate earlier. This page for example: http://www.mapability.com/info/vmap1_download.html mentions the bounding boxes of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VMAP1 in Landcover-DB

2006-06-15 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Is the map definition file available anywhere so I can see what layers you have defined? http://mapserver.flightgear.org/landcover.map This is still work in progress - as always ;-) - because I didn't finish adding all the VMAP1-layers. Ok,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VMAP1 in Landcover-DB

2006-06-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:58:09 + (UTC), Martin wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, the VMAP1 dataset makes a nice difference for the Bay Area. Go to: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ enter ICAO KPAO, and then replace several layers in the selection: rivers_stream -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VMAP1 in Landcover-DB

2006-06-14 Thread Josh Babcock
I say we issue everyone a GPS unit and start taking out own data :) Josh ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel