Re: [Flightgear-devel] osm2city.py

2013-05-16 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Thomas Albrecht wrote: > If I had a limited number of "complex" (as in > 8 vertices per model) shared > models, and place a total of 5 instances in a scene, could this be made to > occupy significantly less RAM than 5 individual models? In theory yes - that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] osm2city.py

2013-05-13 Thread Thomas Albrecht
James, > Could the floor-plan data be pulled live from OSM servers, or does it need to > be processed offline before hand? We have most of the infrastructure to pull > data from web-services already in place. Currently data is processed offline before hand. Basically, it parses the OSM xml, gener

Re: [Flightgear-devel] osm2city.py

2013-05-13 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi all, altough it looks nice around LOWI, it is not the magic solution to all problems in life. It won't (yet) work very well or not at all for large parts of the world. It's certainly promising and a nice addition to our current auto generated buildings, but no replacement yet. - When there

Re: [Flightgear-devel] osm2city.py

2013-05-13 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi Tom, On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Thomas Albrecht wrote: > Dear list, > in particular Stuart, > > please let me 'officially' announce my project osm2city.py [1,2] here. This > python script takes OSM floor plans and generates 3D buildings for use with > flightgear. I'm planning to develop

Re: [Flightgear-devel] osm2city.py

2013-05-12 Thread Curtis Olson
Hi Thomas, That is way cool! I'm also really looking forward to seeing this come together. Would this data set include airport hangar buildings as well? The Lowi screenshot looks really nice! Curt. On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Thomas Albrecht wrote: > Dear list, > in particular Stuart,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] osm2city.py

2013-05-12 Thread James Turner
On 12 May 2013, at 21:35, Thomas Albrecht wrote: > Dear list, > in particular Stuart, > > please let me 'officially' announce my project osm2city.py [1,2] here. This > python script takes OSM floor plans and generates 3D buildings for use with > flightgear. I'm planning to develop this into