Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday 23 April 2006 01:31, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Quick question. How hard (or would it be possible) to create a version of this tool that would run locally and use a local copy of the TerraGear work directory instead of the raw vmap0 or shapefile ... something that a person could use

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the underlying database. Visit: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ I just had a quick look at Munich (EDDM). Activating all layers it looks like that the most

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Martin Spott
Paul Surgeon wrote: On Sunday 23 April 2006 00:17, Martin Spott wrote: Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the underlying database. Visit: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ Looks excellent Martin! Thanks ! I feel a major drwback is that the airports don't have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:38, Martin Spott wrote: Paul Surgeon wrote: On Sunday 23 April 2006 00:17, Martin Spott wrote: Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the underlying database. Visit: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ Looks excellent Martin! Thanks

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Martin Spott
Christian Mayer wrote: What I've seen is that there are only two road types. I think this could be limiting in the future. (As line data can dramatically increase the triangle count it might be necessary to switch off the smallest visible roads.) Yep, this a tribute we're currently paying to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Martin Spott
Paul Surgeon wrote: On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:38, Martin Spott wrote: Thanks ! I feel a major drwback is that the airports don't have their ICAO codes attached to the circles. This appears to be part of the group of features that need special handling Ok, I'm assuming you're pulling

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday 23 April 2006 14:36, Martin Spott wrote: The screenshot looks promising, but I guess it does not show these yellow circles. When assigning '100 120 255' I get some blueish dots. BTW, how does your definition of the cities-symbol look ? SYMBOL NAME cities-symbol TYPE ellipse

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: Paul Surgeon wrote: On Sunday 23 April 2006 00:17, Martin Spott wrote: Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the underlying database. Visit: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ [...] Thanks ! I feel a major drwback is that the airports don't have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: Got it, ICAO identifiery are being displayed, handling of outline colours is being worked on, O.k., I consider this small step as finished. This was a nice task for refreshing my rusty Perl skills, starting to learn PHP and interfacing both with a PostGIS-DB, always trying

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-22 Thread dene maxwell
Hi Martin, excellent a couple of other observations The ICAO selector doesn't like lower-case The land-cover seems to be offset to the coast line (in the case of NZWN to the south) on the positive...its a very intuative interface and shows how much work i've got to do to get even the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-22 Thread Martin Spott
dene maxwell wrote: a couple of other observations The ICAO selector doesn't like lower-case Aaah, didn't think of that because I always use upper case for ICAO codes. The land-cover seems to be offset to the coast line (in the case of NZWN to the south) This is part of a well-known

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-22 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott wrote: Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the underlying database. Visit: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ enter the ICAO identifier of your favourite airfield and explore our landcover data. I _am_ aware of two drawbacks: 1.) There is a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-22 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Curt, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the underlying database. Visit: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ [...] Quick question. How hard (or would it be possible) to create a version of this tool that would run