Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 0.9.10 First Impressions

2006-01-21 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Saturday 21 January 2006 13:01, Martin Spott wrote: > These reports of higher fidelity in the way how landcover is being > displayed makes me wonder as the dataset which the landcover display is > being based on is the same as for the last Scenery. Do the better > results stem from Curt's work o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 0.9.10 First Impressions

2006-01-21 Thread Martin Spott
Steve Knoblock wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:14:06 -0800, you wrote: >>Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 0.9.10 First Impressions > > I noticed the waterways through Kent Island, MD were rendered as I > remember them. The fidelity seems much higher than FS2004 or previous > versions stock sce

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 0.9.10 First Impressions

2006-01-20 Thread cmetzler
> KDCA is sitting up on a strange ledge. Hmmm. I'd heard that was fixed. > And there appear to be two > Washington Monuments. In Jon's database, there was a generic obelisk that was used to mark landmarks. That probably didn't get removed. -c -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 0.9.10 First Impressions

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Knoblock
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:14:06 -0800, you wrote: >Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 0.9.10 First Impressions I noticed the waterways through Kent Island, MD were rendered as I remember them. The fidelity seems much higher than FS2004 or previous versions stock scenery. There were still a few thin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 0.9.10 First Impressions

2006-01-19 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Friday 20 January 2006 00:13, Robicd wrote: > Well, I make use of Google Earth and atlanteitaliano.it for getting > aerial pictures and populate the town around LICP, both sources give > same coordinates so I assume the offset is real. > > Do you think I can take sources like GoogleEarth as corr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 0.9.10 First Impressions

2006-01-19 Thread Robicd
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Robicd wrote: My first impression is good. I see more details around my local area now. Thank you for the improvement. LICJ has no slopes on the runway anymore :-) LICP is still wrong positioned though, it's still 500m southern then the real position and that disturbes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 0.9.10 First Impressions

2006-01-19 Thread Martin Spott
Durk Talsma wrote: > Hi All, > Following Curt's Announcement I decided to download the new FlightGear 0.9.10 > Scenery tiles. Yesterday, I decided to take a little tour over my home area, Same here :-) I have the impression that stopways still are being handled incorrectly. This counts for LCHM

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 0.9.10 First Impressions

2006-01-19 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Robicd wrote: My first impression is good. I see more details around my local area now. Thank you for the improvement. LICJ has no slopes on the runway anymore :-) LICP is still wrong positioned though, it's still 500m southern then the real position and that disturbes a lot the buildings' po

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 0.9.10 First Impressions

2006-01-19 Thread Robicd
My first impression is good. I see more details around my local area now. Thank you for the improvement. LICJ has no slopes on the runway anymore :-) LICP is still wrong positioned though, it's still 500m southern then the real position and that disturbes a lot the buildings' positioning in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 0.9.10 First Impressions

2006-01-19 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: >>This is nice to hear. Curt, could you specify which coastline and lake >>data you actually took for this build - did you take the recent 1.3 >>GSHHS release ? > I only used the vmap0 data for this build, pending manual resolution of > some of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 0.9.10 First Impressions

2006-01-19 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott wrote: This is nice to hear. Curt, could you specify which coastline and lake data you actually took for this build - did you take the recent 1.3 GSHHS release ? I only used the vmap0 data for this build, pending manual resolution of some of the data conflicts between gshhs an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 0.9.10 First Impressions

2006-01-19 Thread Josh Babcock
Martin Spott wrote: > Durk Talsma wrote: > > >>- The lake, river, and canal areas around the city of amsterdam are much >>improved: The North Sea canal, which connects amsterdam to the north sea is >>now accurately represented, as well as some artificial lakes surrounding the >>new flevoland a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 0.9.10 First Impressions

2006-01-19 Thread Martin Spott
Durk Talsma wrote: > - The lake, river, and canal areas around the city of amsterdam are much > improved: The North Sea canal, which connects amsterdam to the north sea is > now accurately represented, as well as some artificial lakes surrounding the > new flevoland area are now accurately repr