Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-05 Thread Durk Talsma
On 04 Sep 2011, at 14:54, James Turner wrote: On 4 Sep 2011, at 07:05, Durk Talsma wrote: If not, I might consider moving the taxidraw source over to gitorious and incorporate it as a subproject of fg. Any thoughts / ideas would be welcome. I think this is best answer - for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-05 Thread Peter Sadrozinski
Actually, I'm going to continue using my parser for now. It looks like there are still some bugs in the ogr2ogr importer with respect to closing polys with curves. Here's an image showing some of the polys being closed with linear segments instead of bezier.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Peter, glad to meet you here ! Peter Sadrozinski wrote: Another reason we may wish to stay with my parser is that it offers a bit more flexibility. I plan on allowing options to set how many segments to break curves into, (and possibly using more segments for curvier sections than

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Spott
Peter Sadrozinski wrote: I have some experience writing GRASS modules, and I noticed some were being added to terragear-cs a few months ago. one of which looked like a skeleton for a btg file exporter. Is anyone actively working on this? If not, I can continue down that path. You're

[Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-04 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi All, In the past, we've seen a large number of projects that were initiated for FlightGear; Atlas, fgrun, the terragear toolchain, and taxidraw. Many of these program have undergone substantial development, many contributors have come and gone, and in a number of cases, the project

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-04 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 04.09.11 08:05, schrieb Durk Talsma: Hi All, In the past, we've seen a large number of projects that were initiated for FlightGear; Atlas, fgrun, the terragear toolchain, and taxidraw. Many of these program have undergone substantial development, many contributors have come and gone,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-04 Thread Michael Sgier
Qgis looks very good, but not very simple to use. Anyone to create a tutorial in the forum?-- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-04 Thread James Turner
On 4 Sep 2011, at 07:05, Durk Talsma wrote: If not, I might consider moving the taxidraw source over to gitorious and incorporate it as a subproject of fg. Any thoughts / ideas would be welcome. I think this is best answer - for programs the original author wishes others to maintain /

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-04 Thread Gijs de Rooy
://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5t=13240 Gijs Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 04:34:46 -0700 From: scrat_h...@yahoo.com To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs Qgis looks very good, but not very simple to use. Anyone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-04 Thread Christian Schmitt
HB-GRAL wrote: Personally I don’t know if there is a roadmap for taxidraw anymore. You can edit airport data with tools like Qgis directly and with much more comfort. It’s sad, but I think we dont need it anymore. Well, you can import apt.dat data into QGIS via GDAL. But be aware that this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-04 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 04.09.11 15:01, schrieb Gijs de Rooy: Why not use Xplane's WED? Appears to be open-source (didn't check the license though) and works with the 850 format... Hi Gijs I use QGis because with this one I edit current shape database directly, without any conversion of anything. And most of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-04 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 04.09.11 16:01, schrieb Christian Schmitt: HB-GRAL wrote: Personally I don’t know if there is a roadmap for taxidraw anymore. You can edit airport data with tools like Qgis directly and with much more comfort. It’s sad, but I think we dont need it anymore. Well, you can import apt.dat

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-04 Thread Geoff McLane
On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 15:01 +0200, Gijs de Rooy wrote: [snip] Brings me to another question, are we allowed to use Robin's latest apt.dat, once we can handle the new format? Looks like that day isn't too far away anymore http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5t=13240 Gijs Hi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-04 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 04.09.11 17:11, schrieb Geoff McLane: On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 15:01 +0200, Gijs de Rooy wrote: [snip] Brings me to another question, are we allowed to use Robin's latest apt.dat, once we can handle the new format? Looks like that day isn't too far away anymore

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-04 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Yves, HB-GRAL wrote: Personally I don?t know if there is a roadmap for taxidraw anymore. You can edit airport data with tools like Qgis directly and with much more comfort. Please explain. I haven't seen anyone building functional airports for FlightGear out of data which had been

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-04 Thread Vadym Kukhtin
2011/9/4 Martin Spott martin.sp...@mgras.net Hi Yves, HB-GRAL wrote: Personally I don?t know if there is a roadmap for taxidraw anymore. You can edit airport data with tools like Qgis directly and with much more comfort. Please explain. I haven't seen anyone building functional

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-04 Thread Martin Spott
Vadym Kukhtin wrote: GeoFan from russian FG-forun had made airport layout in GRASS I have to admit that I'd rather trust a personal explanation of what this guy is actually doing than an automated translation ;-) Anyhow, note that, not only in real aviation life but also in FlightGear as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-04 Thread Martin Spott
HB-GRAL wrote: To get XPlane gpl airport data into a postgres/postgis database as ESRI shapes you can use the ogr2ogr gdal plugin written by Robin Peel [...] s/Robin Peel/Even Rouault/ I know because we've been exchanging a couple of EMails over the past three years while chasing a few

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-04 Thread Fgfs Fgfs
No this must be automatic. I'd be prehistoric otherways. There was another discussion to move airports above ground for FPS (frames per second) reasons.  Maybe someone should advice: psadro_gm-- Special Offer --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The future of FlightGear's support programs

2011-09-04 Thread Fgfs Fgfs
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