Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim advert on FaceBook

2010-11-12 Thread Martin Spott
"Mally" wrote: > Relicensing seems to be a good idea if the present license (or it's > potential to be misinterpreted) is resulting in unhappiness for the > contributors, or worse still, affecting the growth and development of FG, as > seems to be the case currently. I think the latter stateme

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim advert on FaceBook

2010-11-12 Thread Martin Spott
Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Frankly this guy is a big part of the reason I have yet to commit my scenery > and > aircraft to the community. I do NOT want someone making money from my efforts > without either my consent or without some form of input to the community as a > condition of being allow

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Global Coordinate System

2010-11-11 Thread Martin Spott
Paul Guhl wrote: > My question is: how the local/global coordinates are managed in FlightGear? Did you already read this one ? http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/Scenery/CoordinateSystem/CoordinateSystem.html Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend2010

2010-11-08 Thread Martin Spott
fiers...@zonnet.nl wrote: > Op 08-11-10 14:21, Martin Spott schreef: >> While we're at it, I'd like to remind that these impressive multi- >> screen setups, which we (the respective booth crews) have been proud to >> present on various FSweekend and LinuxTag shows

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend2010

2010-11-08 Thread Martin Spott
Durk Talsma wrote: > - Some people just not believing that a single machine could drive 10 > monitors and actively checking where all the monitor cables > actually went to. While we're at it, I'd like to remind that these impressive multi- screen setups, which we (the respective booth crews)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FSWeekend2010

2010-11-07 Thread Martin Spott
Durk Talsma wrote: > Dear list, We want pictures !! ;-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: in air starts and all preset

2010-11-02 Thread Martin Spott
James Turner wrote: > On 2 Nov 2010, at 14:14, Martin Spott wrote: >> According to my understanding a safe assumption about "defaults" would >> mean to have the state of a fresh startup scenario replayed. More >> precisely this would mean to a) read 'sta

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: in air starts and all preset

2010-11-02 Thread Martin Spott
James Turner wrote: > My 'least bad' option is to save control state (from the -set.xml, or > config, or command line) as part of the initial state, so that it's > re-applied after the controls are reset. According to my understanding a safe assumption about "defaults" would mean to have the stat

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PLUG IN for glass cockpit displays

2010-10-31 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > I'm not sure if they have a public/free |FS,XP]UIPC API- and > interface-description - I did a quick search but was unable to find > one. not that I'd be willing to implement an FSUIPC-compatible interface in FlightGear. I'd just like to kn

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PLUG IN for glass cockpit displays

2010-10-31 Thread Martin Spott
"James J. Brennan" wrote: > I've been using the "project magenta" glass cockpit displays in my simulator > here for some time [...] > I've long hoped that there would be a way to use those displays with > FlightGear, and wonder if anyone has any ideas as to how that could be > accomplished. I'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Material shader problem?

2010-10-31 Thread Martin Spott
Tim Moore wrote: > I'll take a look. It could be that the default shaders are using constructs > that aren't supported on older hardware, or provoke bugs there, or are buggy > themselves in ways that don't show up on post G80 hardware. >From my personal perspective this would be "nice to have", b

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Material shader problem?

2010-10-30 Thread Martin Spott
"D-NXKT" wrote: > All model faces that are orientated to the sun are white. Oooh, this sounds very familiar :-) SimGear, FlightGear and Base Package pulled from current GIT, Xorg server 1.7.7 and Nvidia driver 260.19.12 on Linux-2.6.36/AMD64 (Debian Squeeze). Graphics card is a is a 7100GS, whi

[Flightgear-devel] GIT commit mailing list !? Was: Bug in tg-cs genobj.cxx

2010-10-23 Thread Martin Spott
Geoff McLane wrote: > A question. Is there a way to get an email advice of git commits, like > I used to get with cvs? Yes, this is possible. The EMail notifications I'm generating at the MapServer GIT repository are a lot more informative than those from Gitorious, probably even a bit too verbos

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help needed: HUD conversion to new syntax

2010-10-22 Thread Martin Spott
James Turner wrote: > (I also really love the TSR2 - can't wait to see the results of all your hard > work!) Agreed, the TSR.2 is a fascinating piece of aerospace engineering ! Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] F/A-18 License

2010-10-21 Thread Martin Spott
Jack Mermod wrote: >I've been doing some heavy work on Mathias Frohlich's > F/A-18 > lately, but I have been forced to postpone my release of the improved > version due to the fact that I cannot find any indication of what > license it is under. Last time I spoke to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Martin Spott
Scott Hamilton wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 21:02 +0000, Martin Spott wrote: >> Whenever/whatever people are going to do about adding authentication >> support to MP servers, if they'd consider adding an interface which is >> capable of talking to an LDAP directory s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: > Would it be bad if a user had a choice between the open free for all we > currently have and a more constrained and managed system (that someone has > taken the time to build and continues to manage.) No, offering multiple options to choose from is certainly not a bad idea.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announcing: FSWeekend 2010

2010-10-20 Thread Martin Spott
Torsten Dreyer wrote: > We met the nice guys of Thomas-Krenn AG at this year's LinuxTag where we were > almost booth neighbours. Durk, Martin and I visited the their headquarter a > few weeks ago. thanks to Torsten and his wife, without whose generous support the entire trip would have be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announcing: FSWeekend 2010

2010-10-20 Thread Martin Spott
Torsten Dreyer wrote: > If you were still looking for an excuse to fly into Amsterdam and visit > FSWeekend, this machine definitely is one! s/Amsterdam/Lelystad/ Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: > Another thought. I know it would be a huge effort to setup a system with > user id's and passwords, self registration, [...] ^ To be honest, I'd expect those who deliberately are being rude will just create a new account after they

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Martin Spott
Stefan Seifert wrote: > Very sensible words. Technical solutions usually don't work for social > problems. Exactly this is the point, and I'd like to add that the social problem we're currently looking at might be manifold Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just se

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: > Would it be possible to start logging and saving (and publishing) MP > messages somewhere so a person with a grievance would have some hard > evidence to show what happened. I do sense certain privacy issues by logging/storing/publishing callsigns and MP messages (similarly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v2.0.0 short description

2010-10-13 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Martin Spott wrote: > >> Hi, the page: >> >> http://www.flightgear.org/announce.html#v2.0.0 >> >> says: "Version 2.0.0 [...] is primarily a bug fix release". I don't >> think this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mpserver dns changes???

2010-10-12 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: > But we could always point the mpmap02 record to another machine if that > works better. I suspect this service would match the "use terms" ;-) of the MapServer machine. Anyone willing to help me setting this thing up ? Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-10-11 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > It's a little bit like buying a house when you're thinking about having four > kids. even though we bought a nice house last autumn which might be suited to accommodate four children, the above sentence wasn't meant to be understo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was: mpserver02

2010-10-11 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Csaba, Csaba Halász wrote: > Side note: Sabin has been waiting for an official > mpserver.flightgear.org address since may for the FREE mp server he > started in Kansas. Which, being in the USA, could have taken much of > the stress from Pigeon's 02. Unfortunately even though we had some > di

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-10-11 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Curt, Curtis Olson wrote: > 2. I've played a bit with drupal, and in comparison to wordpress, it feels > much more adhoc and clunky, much less thought out, much more disorganized, > much less intuitive, much harder to admin, and much harder to make it do > what I want to do. Well, Drupal is p

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [patch] Improved Nasal access to?airport

2010-10-11 Thread Martin Spott
James Turner wrote: > Not saying this isn't useful, but I'd rather everything in the app used > the same data source (the FGPositioned 'database' and its query > functions), and then we can change the implementation of that if required > - for example, a caching version which queries the Landcover

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [patch] Improved Nasal access to?airport

2010-10-11 Thread Martin Spott
Scott Hamilton wrote: > However I really like the idea of getting back an array of airports > within some radius of a centre lat/lon pair, and/or within a bounding > box (2 or 4 lat/lon pairs), and if the same could be done with other > navigation elements in nav.dat it would be most excellent! H

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG hangs on startup when nearby airport

2010-10-10 Thread Martin Spott
Torsten Dreyer wrote: > Here is the relevant code: from src/FDM/fdm_shell.cxx Indeed, commenting the "if (globals->get_scenery[...]" clause makes FlightGear skip the infinite loop. Thanks a lot for getting me started into investigations. For the purpose of Scenery development - and probably othe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-10-10 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Gijs, Gijs de Rooy wrote: > Question is: are there really (that many) features that we cannot > install easily on a wiki/CMS? The most prominent item that comes into my mind is what is probably well-decribed as "dynamic content" (choose a better term, if you like). Being the technical maintai

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-10-10 Thread Martin Spott
Gijs de Rooy wrote: > - Less open system: for example, it will be harder to implement > additional features (gallery's, search engines) etc. However, the > alternative is a CMS system, which isn't much opener... I'm uncertain about how to read this final conclusion. Cheers, Martin. --

[Flightgear-devel] FG hangs on startup when nearby airport Scenery object is missing

2010-10-09 Thread Martin Spott
Hi, let's think I'm taking a current version of FlightGear together with a current copy of the Base Package. Now I'll go editing the following file: Scenery/Terrain/w130n30/w123n37/942050.stg and I'm removing just the single line that contains "OBJECT KSFO.btg", thus intentionally leaving a ho

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear v2.0.0 short description

2010-10-09 Thread Martin Spott
Hi, the page: http://www.flightgear.org/announce.html#v2.0.0 says: "Version 2.0.0 [...] is primarily a bug fix release". I don't think this holds true ;-) Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was:

2010-10-09 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > If anyone's providing a nice home for free, I'll bring the hardware, Ah, looks like this isn't required any more, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective ab

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was:

2010-10-09 Thread Martin Spott
Nathanael Rebsch wrote: > however, if there is a server floating around which merely needs > co-locating, [...] If anyone's providing a nice home for free, I'll bring the hardware, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was: mpserver02

2010-10-07 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > Just to add a funny side to this discussion: The land cover database is > certainly among the most resource-intensive services in the entire > project. well, except from the feed to 'TerraSync', which is definitely playing in its own league,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] buying server bandwidth (was: mpserver02

2010-10-07 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: > We could certainly explore the donation route. Just to add a funny side to this discussion: The land cover database is certainly among the most resource-intensive services in the entire project. Maybe it's even the first item on the list. Currently approx. a dozend CPU cor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiler Warnings

2010-09-27 Thread Martin Spott
James Turner wrote: > The SSE math flags are a no-brainer where supported - the > -march-native and -sse flags are all Apple defaults in Xcode. BTW, as far as I remember the -sse and -sse2 are on by default for GCC on AMD64 (alias x86_64). Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Global Weather

2010-09-22 Thread Martin Spott
thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: > I'm offering you an explanation, as there may be things I have thought of > and you haven't. Well, that's your private interpretation and I do respect that you're defending your point of view. Nevertheless, the problem _I_ am talking about is that the recipients of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Git Merge Request - was Re: tidy up of the

2010-09-22 Thread Martin Spott
Torsten Dreyer wrote: >> One quick observation regarding the new menu structure: I noticed that the >> new OSG rendering options menu item, that was recently added by Torsten, >> under the view menu, has disappeared. Since I wanted to test the new >> stereoscopic vision modes, I reverted my git

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Coooperation FlightGear/Fly! Legacy

2010-09-18 Thread Martin Spott
steph...@simvol.org wrote: > [...], I would like to know if someone would agree to > contact by email the two main developers to discuss with them about the > elements of FlightGear which could be integrated, in order to allow > Fly! Legacy to be 100% independent. You've chosen a rather 'ambit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Global Weather

2010-09-18 Thread Martin Spott
thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: >> I'd be interested to run such a comparison myself. Could you translate >> the described conditions into a set of command line parameters against >> 'default' FlightGear/GIT startup so I/we can make sure not to interfere >> with local customizations ? > > I don't t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Global Weather

2010-09-13 Thread Martin Spott
thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: > If you want to compare apples to apples, then you have to level the field. > I've just tested 'fair weather' conditions seen from the same location > (above KLSV), no cloud movement, same altitude of cloud layers and same > visibility of terrain (35 km) and clouds (

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Musings on the range animation

2010-09-05 Thread Martin Spott
thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: > One has to work with the tools available - or write one's owns... with > range animation I literally mean the xml-tag in the wrapper of a model: > > > > range > 0 > 31000 > This reminds me that people found similar animation patterns for 'common' Scenery mod

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building FlightGear under Vista

2010-08-29 Thread Martin Spott
Frederic Bouvier wrote: > 13. Get the data from Gitorious too : git clone > git://gitorious.org/fg/fgdata.git fgdata Or, to those who think the forementioned service responds too slowly: git clone git://mapserver.flightgear.org/fgdata/ Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flying Churches

2010-08-21 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Erik, Erik Hofman wrote: > On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 10:09 +0000, Martin Spott wrote: >> HB-GRAL wrote: >> > I noticed today a small problem with random placement of some models >> > (houses) with scenery point feature 'town'. I see that some of the >>

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flying Churches

2010-08-20 Thread Martin Spott
HB-GRAL wrote: > I noticed today a small problem with random placement of some models > (houses) with scenery point feature 'town'. I see that some of the > houses are flying where terrain isn???t completely flat. I guess the > houses where placed near a single 'town point' all at same height?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multi core discussion

2010-07-06 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Csaba, Csaba Halász wrote: > FG itself isn't CPU limited, we barely use any processing power :) During preparations for some public show last year (maybe LinuxTag) I replaced the two Opteron 2 GHz CPU's by their respective 2.8 GHz counterparts and the result was an almost proportional (to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issues with compiling on Gentoo 64

2010-06-26 Thread Martin Spott
Jason Cox wrote: > 1. is simgear-cs & flightgear-cs still required or cn I just use th > gitorious versions? "simgear-cs" is just a customized version of SimGear for "terragear-cs" to run headless if you don't have a $DISPLAY available. It's not required for general operation of FlightGear. Chee

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear

2010-06-23 Thread Martin Spott
syd adams wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Martin Spott wrote: >> OSG version 2.2.x should be fine. If that one doesn't work either, then >> you're having additional trouble hiding elsewhere. > Thanks Martin , I'll give that a try. Please

[Flightgear-devel] New land cover Shapefile download feature

2010-06-23 Thread Martin Spott
I've added a new - long overdue - download feature to the known Shapefile download page at: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/download.psp On the left you'll still find the old per-layer download, on the right there's a new, still in testing "every polygon from Custom Scenery within a bounding bo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC

2010-06-22 Thread Martin Spott
Peter Morgan wrote: > although there are a few "atc" client around such as > 1) ATC > 2) ATC2 > 3) ATCML - fav I don't know any of these. > so is there a way to create an "ATC client" without FG ? Depends on what you're looking for - "ATC client" is a very vague description. There's something l

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Spott
syd adams wrote: > Im using svn OSG , recompiled yesterday is that too new ? OSG version 2.2.x should be fine. If that one doesn't work either, then you're having additional trouble hiding elsewhere. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its fri

Re: [Flightgear-devel] June / LinuxTag release

2010-06-21 Thread Martin Spott
Peter Morgan wrote: > Would the future also contain the MP protocol+player enviroment, ATC, MP > mapping ? I doubt that these are affected by the release process. > and also all the aircraft independant in hangars Aircraft are available here: http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/aircraft-2.0.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Uncompressing apt.dat et al

2010-06-14 Thread Martin Spott
Ron Jensen wrote: > On Sunday 06 June 2010 05:25:14 Martin Spott wrote: >> As long as we're sticking to the v8.10 format, I'm accepting update >> submissions which are being merged into this file: >> >> http://mapserver.flightgear.org/apt.dat.gz >> >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] outerra news

2010-06-06 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Martin Spott wrote: >> I'd be happy to read a more elaborate statement of what you're having >> in mind. What is the term "scenery package" supposed to mean ? > > An Open-Source package including

Re: [Flightgear-devel] outerra news

2010-06-06 Thread Martin Spott
Peter Morgan wrote: > Is there a begginers guide ? There's a couple of TerraGear-related articles on The Wiki - plus the source code an included comments. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] outerra news

2010-06-06 Thread Martin Spott
Hi David, David Megginson wrote: > Maybe we should consider moving to a different OpenSource scenery > package. I'd be happy to read a more elaborate statement of what you're having in mind. What is the term "scenery package" supposed to mean ? Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friend

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Uncompressing apt.dat et al

2010-06-06 Thread Martin Spott
Michael Sgier wrote: > Maintaining an obsolete apt.dat is a waste of time. Better teaming up > on integrating the current 8.5 format. You're invited to team up for the sake of saving us from wasting our time > It works perfectly on X-Plane so why shouldn't it do the same in FG. but t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Uncompressing apt.dat et al

2010-06-06 Thread Martin Spott
Ron Jensen wrote: > However, I think it would be better to unzip nav.dat and apt.dat in our git > so > that local changes can be made and tracked. We are staying with an obsolete > version of apt.dat for the near future so Robin won't be maintaining it for > us. As long as we're sticking t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mirroring flightgear / scenery

2010-06-06 Thread Martin Spott
Peter Morgan wrote: > Guess the "make/blow DVD" script is not in CVS ? I think it's been sitting in some utility repo, but since there's no CVS any more Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] outerra news

2010-06-04 Thread Martin Spott
Gene Buckle wrote: > That is just amazing. TerraGear should do that. :) Everyone's invited to contribute ;-) http://mapserver.flightgear.org/git/gitweb.pl?p=terragear-cs Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mirroring flightgear / scenery

2010-06-04 Thread Martin Spott
Peter Morgan wrote: > Is it practical to just SVN up the latest terrasync onto a remote machine > and then ZIP it from there ? Depends on what your intention is. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! ---

[Flightgear-devel] Invitations for LinuxTag

2010-05-30 Thread Martin Spott
Hi folks, as in every year, we're having a couple of free visitor tickets for the LinuxTag expo in Berlin to share among interested fellows. Thus, if you, your friends or colleagues are interested to experience LinuxTag, please send me their name and EMail-adress, so I can assign a free ticket for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-25 Thread Martin Spott
Jörg Emmerich wrote: > [...] Also our Graphical-enthusiasts could > develop nice certificates - even good enough to pinup at the > working-place (and thus help us promote FlightGear!). There already is such thing. I just have a pile of printed copies which we've been handing out to our 'students'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] Fix fgviewer segfault

2010-05-24 Thread Martin Spott
Jeff Taylor wrote: > Is Terragear still being maintained? The current version doesn't even > compile without errors. I have a couple of fixes there. I'll just > attach them to this message for now. In the future, should I make > separate e-mails for each? I will likely keep posting patches as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] Fix fgviewer segfault

2010-05-23 Thread Martin Spott
Gijs de Rooy wrote: > If you feel happy creating patches for fgviewer, here's another issue that > really > should be looked at IMO... > > http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=117 Please find the corresponding thread, starting here: http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgea

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Developers

2010-05-21 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > As far as my memory serves (I might be wrong and I'm currently not in a > position to check) someone's been posting plausible objections against > at least one patch for the B787 which (the objections) had never been > adressed. Yup, here's the r

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Developers

2010-05-21 Thread Martin Spott
Peter Morgan wrote: > 2) two patches have already been submitted to this list and NONE have been > appliced As far as my memory serves (I might be wrong and I'm currently not in a position to check) someone's been posting plausible objections against at least one patch for the B787 which (the obj

Re: [Flightgear-devel] professinal/educational uses of FlightGear...

2010-05-20 Thread Martin Spott
Gene Buckle wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2010, Martin Spott wrote: >> Good idea - it's just that I'm slightly uncertain if all those people >> who are involved into professional use of FlightGear are permitted to >> talk about their respective projects in the public ..

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git bundle

2010-05-20 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > Alex Perry wrote: >> I don't think we have country/state polygons in our current data >> image. > > We're having all sorts of polygonal data available in the > "Landcover-DB", including country/state borders. Thus from a techni

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear git repositories (was Re: GIT or CVS

2010-05-20 Thread Martin Spott
BTW, I've switched the MapServer mirrors of simgear, flightgear and fgdata over to following the respective repositories at Gitorious. The mirror setup still in testing mode but I'm quite confident that it'll serve the needs. Feel free to clone your local copy from there, especially the fgdata, in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear git repositories (was Re: GIT or

2010-05-20 Thread Martin Spott
James Turner wrote: > And a huge thanks to Tim and Martin for doing the work to make this possible. I'd like to point out that Tim has been the one who did the Gitorious migration _now_ - many thanks, congratulations to him ! The scope of my involvement is limited to providing the outcome of my f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git bundle

2010-05-19 Thread Martin Spott
Alex Perry wrote: > I don't think we have country/state polygons in our current data > image. We're having all sorts of polygonal data available in the "Landcover-DB", including country/state borders. Thus from a technical point of view there's no reason not to create a list of 1x1 degree Scenery

Re: [Flightgear-devel] professinal/educational uses of FlightGear...

2010-05-14 Thread Martin Spott
Gene Buckle wrote: > I'd like to build as comprehensive list as possible that shows all the > various professional & educational uses & users of FlightGear. Good idea - it's just that I'm slightly uncertain if all those people who are involved into professional use of FlightGear are permitted to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GIT or CVS - Confusion

2010-05-12 Thread Martin Spott
Heiko Schulz wrote: > So the next question is: As far as I can tell, details are being arranged after the repositories have been migrated properly - which, obviously, is the most relevant step now. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends

Re: [Flightgear-devel] June / LinuxTag release

2010-05-10 Thread Martin Spott
Peter Morgan wrote: > So we need a working version on the tuesday before .. > > The following tuesday, U will be taking that to Linux tag.. on a chip ? "Traditionally" (since 2007) the setup for LinuxTag has been prepared and test-run by Matthias Boerner, Mathias Froehlich - and myself. LinuxTag

Re: [Flightgear-devel] toow many bugs on flightgear sources

2010-05-05 Thread Martin Spott
Jim Duchek wrote: > As another note, it seems that simgear and terragear from CVS have some > problems -- using simgear-cs and terragear-cs from git seems to work better. > Not sure what the -cs means or why we have two different repositories in > the first place. "-cs" is the short form for "Cus

Re: [Flightgear-devel] toow many bugs on flightgear sources

2010-05-05 Thread Martin Spott
"Ingels David" wrote: > The interdepencies are chaotics [ ] I've tried to understand the build instructions / FAQ Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -- --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Effects on OSX

2010-04-21 Thread Martin Spott
HB-GRAL wrote: > BTW: "Warning: TangentSpaceGenerator: unknown primitive mode 9 > " does not go away (from all this bumpspec.eff) but I guess this is not > related to my card. Is it? I'm getting tons of this all the time with an NVidia driver on Linux/AMD64. I suspect the people involved are awa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Calendar

2010-04-20 Thread Martin Spott
"Rob Shearman, Jr." wrote: >> http://calendar.freeflightsim.org/ > > There is already such a thing maintained by Curt: > http://www.flightgear.org/calendar.html Well, the most obvious difference is that Willie's calendar seems to be maintained more carefully. At least, when you take a snapshot v

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on LinuxTag

2010-04-12 Thread Martin Spott
Hi, just wanted to let you know that this year's application for a booth on LinuxTag [1] has been approved today. Cheers, Martin. [1]: http://www.linuxtag.org/2010/en.html -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/c172p/Models/Liveries

2010-04-09 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Stuart, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/c172p/Models/Liveries > In directory baron.flightgear.org:/tmp/cvs-serv9716/Models/Liveries > > Modified Files: >fuselage-normal.png tail-normal.png wing-normal.png > Log Message: > Updated normal mappin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Kids Training Manual

2010-04-09 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: > I wrote that tutorial just after finishing my initial flight training > in 2002, and it's based on the standard pitch+power=performance model > of teaching. Fortunately _my_ instructor was seriously concerned with always installing a "safe" speed for climb, approach or wh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mpmap ILS data

2010-04-08 Thread Martin Spott
Peter Brown wrote: > On Apr 8, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Martin Spott wrote: >> BTW, feel free to use this service if your're looking for slightly more >> complete airfield data: >> >> >> http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ms?Service=WFS&Version=1.0.0&reques

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mpmap ILS data

2010-04-08 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > BTW, feel free to use this service if your're looking for slightly more > complete airfield data: > > > http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ms?Service=WFS&Version=1.0.0&request=GetFeature&Typename=apt_airfield&MaxFeatures=1&Filter

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mpmap ILS data

2010-04-08 Thread Martin Spott
Peter Brown wrote: > I see. So that brings us back to magnetic vs true, as I was > originally referring to. But, that's somewhat irrevelant as it > _appears_ the mpmap is sourcing the data from the actual runway > placement. or from the navaids. > My opinion is there should be an data fi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue with default starting scenario

2010-04-06 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: > 1. it's normal to have a plane sitting on the runway threshold with > the engine idling > 2. it's normal to have a plane sitting in a parking spot on the apron > with the engine off > 3. it's *not* normal to have a plane sitting on the runway threshold > with the engine of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improvements to the material library and

2010-03-31 Thread Martin Spott
Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: >> James Turner wrote: >>> On 30 Mar 2010, at 16:46, Frederic Bouvier wrote: >>> >>>> What about putting subset of the current materials.xml inside the >>>> scenery tree ? The material library could se

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improvements to the material library and

2010-03-30 Thread Martin Spott
Torsten Dreyer wrote: >> The biggest difficulty, to my opinion, is to realize some sort of >> smooth transition, since the real-live vegetation isn't cut into >> rectangular tiles ;-) > Sometimes it is: I was having bigger dimensions in mind when I wrote the above paragraph :-) What I was try

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improvements to the material library and

2010-03-30 Thread Martin Spott
James Turner wrote: > On 30 Mar 2010, at 16:46, Frederic Bouvier wrote: > >> What about putting subset of the current materials.xml inside the >> scenery tree ? The material library could search either, in that order : >> 1- ./tile.mat.xml ( along with tile.stg and tile.btg.gz ) >> 2- ./materials

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat format

2010-03-30 Thread Martin Spott
Michael Sgier wrote: > it does not matter if I release my apt.dats ( Sion, Bern etc. ) under > GPL or not. [nonsense removed] Your interest in FlightGear, as far as I have learned from various sources, boils down to nothing but serving as a vehicle for you to build a payware add-on business ontop

Re: [Flightgear-devel] apt.dat format

2010-03-29 Thread Martin Spott
As a service to those who'd like to dedicate their time for comparing v8.10 and v8.50 layouts (I don't know if anyone's interested at all), I have now added both to the web map. This is a v8.10 sample: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/map/?lon=-122.37563&lat=37.61927&zoom=15&layers=B00TF

Re: [Flightgear-devel] High Priority: fixing the Great Lakes...

2010-03-28 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: > [...] Next, we were able to separate land (always forest) from water. reminds me of the history of Creation :-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DIY drones "virtual" UAV competition

2010-03-28 Thread Martin Spott
Ron Jensen wrote: > First design decision I faced: There are no ailerons on the stock > version of this model, so I decided to use the aileron control to drive > the rudder so it can be flown from the joystick. Thoughts? It's not uncommon to 'pimp' this model plane by adding ailerons. Doing thi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] High Priority: fixing the Great Lakes...

2010-03-28 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: > Quite a few years ago we had a debate, because we had to choose > between two sets of shoreline data: Nowadays we're in the fortunate position of being able to merge land cover data from various sources. The foundation is still VMap0 which I've loaded into a PostGIS data

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Models/Airport B-1200.ac, 1.2,

2010-03-28 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Erik Hofman wrote: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Models/Airport > In directory baron.flightgear.org:/tmp/cvs-serv32368 > > Modified Files: >B-1200.ac BAK-12-0.ac Schopf_F110.ac TowBear_TT.ac >default01.rgb eddf_lamp_t2.xml radar.ac tacan.ac > Log Message: > fix l

Re: [Flightgear-devel] High priority: fixing the Great Lakes in

2010-03-28 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: > [...] I think someone > originally had a grandiose plan to build a water network, and wanted > eventually to model locks, rapids, waterfalls, etc. to account for > changes in water surface elevation, but that never happened, and to be > honest, we should never have let the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DIY drones "virtual" UAV competition

2010-03-28 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: > If you scroll down a bit, you can see that someone found an AC3D model of an > easystar glider (this is a relatively cheap and small and light and slow > flying RC hobby airplane.) but makes a respectable racer if you're mounting a medium-sized, brushless three-phase m

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