On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:11:00 -0600, Curtis wrote in message
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I should also point out that the next scenery build (which is
happening concurrent to the v0.9.9 release and causing my head to
spin 3x faster than normal (not factoring in beer)) will be based on
this data
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:11:00 -0600, Curtis wrote in message
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I should also point out that the next scenery build (which is
happening concurrent to the v0.9.9 release and causing my head to
spin 3x faster than normal (not factoring in beer)) will be
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:48:37 -0600, Curtis wrote in message
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Arnt Karlsen wrote:
..how much size growth, compared to the (0.9.7?) last scenery?
(url to the new?)
I haven't really started building a lot of tiles yet. I'm still hung
up on a shapefile processing
Martin Spott wrote:
We proudly present the first export from the TerraGear landcover
database or however you prefer to name it. [...]
You'll find some further information on this page refinement in
process:
http://web44.netzwerteserver2.de/212.0.html
Martin.
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Martin Spott wrote:
Martin Spott wrote:
We proudly present the first export from the TerraGear landcover
database or however you prefer to name it. [...]
You'll find some further information on this page refinement in
process:
Ralf Gerlich wrote:
Hi,
Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb:
I think you misunderstood. I was referring to the taxiways under map
mode, not satellite mode. If you go in map mode, you will see that
Google got some pretty accurate vector data for taxiways generation.
Whoop, didn't see that. In
Dave Martin wrote:
On Saturday 10 September 2005 15:39, Martin Spott wrote:
We have to be careful about simply dropping a shapefile into our
landcover database. Wenever we add a road, river or some other data
to the database we'll have to have a look if the respective object is
already
Dave Martin wrote:
On Friday 09 September 2005 18:36, Jon Stockill wrote:
I've just finished downloading and processing all the data to get my
scenery build system back up and running after a disk crash, it's
building tiles for a test of the OSM roads at the moment. I'll grab some
screenshots
Hi,
Jon Stockill schrieb:
[SNIP]
Here's a couple of pics, the first is looking west over the gherkin, and
the second is looking out over regents park. Generation time was over an
hour for that tile on a 1GHz athlon (the resource limits in
fgfs-construct needed a significant increase). Memory
Ralf Gerlich wrote:
This looks quite detailed. I'm not that familiar with the London area so
would you say that there is a considerable amount of smaller streets
missing in there?
You can see the source data here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/ there
are roads missing, simply because the map
On Saturday 10 September 2005 10:25, Jon Stockill wrote:
Here's a couple of pics, the first is looking west over the gherkin, and
the second is looking out over regents park. Generation time was over an
hour for that tile on a 1GHz athlon (the resource limits in
fgfs-construct needed a
Dave Martin writes:
I have a feeling as we get more road data, we're going to be seeing slight
placement errors at the airports. Currently EGBB is placed over the A45 on
the 0.9.8 scenery. If I can get that road mapped by GPS and a few others
around it, we can probably move the airport
On Saturday 10 September 2005 13:19, Dave Martin wrote:
I have a feeling as we get more road data, we're going to be seeing slight
placement errors at the airports. Currently EGBB is placed over the A45 on
the 0.9.8 scenery. If I can get that road mapped by GPS and a few others
around it, we
Paul Surgeon wrote:
I noticed that a lot of airports in the X-Plane DB are quite far out.
Even some major airports like Sion were out by ~ 3 km.
What I do find interesting is that the quality of the data seems to change for
every country.
South Eastern France's data was horrid, so was
Jon Stockill wrote:
http://flightgear.stockill.org.uk/scenery/osmroads1.jpg
http://flightgear.stockill.org.uk/scenery/osmroads2.jpg
Herewith I appoint you to the future maintainer of OSM-data in our
kindcover database :-)
Do they log the changes in their database, do they offer any 'raw'
Martin Spott wrote:
Herewith I appoint you to the future maintainer of OSM-data in our
kindcover database :-)
I should have kept my mouth shut :-)
Do they log the changes in their database, do they offer any 'raw'
interface ?
The interface is explained here:
Martin Spott wrote:
Herewith I appoint you to the future maintainer of OSM-data in our
kindcover database :-)
'landcover' I can't tell how this could happen
Martin.
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Jon Stockill wrote:
I used the map command to dump the data, then converted it to the
tguserdef format in order to build the scenery, but a shapefile could
just as easily be used as the intermediate format.
We have to be careful about simply dropping a shapefile into our
landcover database.
On Saturday 10 September 2005 15:28, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
My understanding is that for the USA, the X-Plane data for runways comes
primarily from DAFIF. Taxiways are all hand drawn and placed. Outside
the USA the runway data is manually generated by anyone who wants to
submit new airports,
On September 10, 2005 09:28 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
My understanding is that for the USA, the X-Plane data for runways comes
primarily from DAFIF. Taxiways are all hand drawn and placed. Outside
the USA the runway data is manually generated by anyone who wants to
submit new airports, so
Hi,
Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb:
Google has some pretty accurate taxiways for their map. Check out
http://pigeond.net/flightgear/fg_server_map.html in map mode.
Does anybody where Google got their data from?
You can get quite detailed aerial photos for most urban areas in the USA
from
Ralf Gerlich wrote:
However, I'm still searching for free detailed aerial photos for other
areas of the world such as Germany. Here the government wants you to pay
twice for the photos: Once via tax and once when you want to use the
photos. The license under which you get those photos here
On Saturday 10 September 2005 19:03, Ralf Gerlich wrote:
However, I'm still searching for free detailed aerial photos for other
areas of the world such as Germany. Here the government wants you to pay
twice for the photos: Once via tax and once when you want to use the
photos. The license
On September 10, 2005 06:36 am, Jon Stockill wrote:
We've just been discussing another problem on irc - the green texture
isn't really appropriate for a city, but I left out the city areas since
the texture it uses contains its own roads. I'm not really sure of a
solution to this.
Personally,
On September 10, 2005 01:03 pm, Ralf Gerlich wrote:
You can get quite detailed aerial photos for most urban areas in the USA
from http://www.terraserver-usa.com
David Luff's TaxiDraw has support for automatically loading such photos
and showing them in the editor.
However, I'm still
Hi,
Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb:
I think you misunderstood. I was referring to the taxiways under map mode,
not satellite mode. If you go in map mode, you will see that Google got some
pretty accurate vector data for taxiways generation.
Whoop, didn't see that. In that case: Yes, I
On Saturday 10 September 2005 15:39, Martin Spott wrote:
We have to be careful about simply dropping a shapefile into our
landcover database. Wenever we add a road, river or some other data
to the database we'll have to have a look if the respective object is
already represented there.
Is it
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Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb:
On September 10, 2005 09:28 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
My understanding is that for the USA, the X-Plane data for runways comes
primarily from DAFIF. Taxiways are all hand drawn and placed. Outside
the USA the runway
Martin Spott wrote:
Good evening,
We proudly present the first export from the TerraGear landcover
database or however you prefer to name it. The contents is
exactly the same as the landcover data that has previously been used
for scenery generation - at least this is the intention.
Jon Stockill wrote:
Excellent - I'll give it a try. I'm also experimenting with some early
data from openstreetmap.org to add accurate roads to scenery.
This is a nice idea, I also consider to import the major streets from
TIGER. But before we start adding 'sophisticated' data we need to make
On Friday 09 September 2005 12:47, Jon Stockill wrote:
Excellent - I'll give it a try. I'm also experimenting with some early
data from openstreetmap.org to add accurate roads to scenery.
Don't know why I didn't find openstreetmap.org when I was searching about for
'royalty free' mapping last
Dave Martin wrote:
Don't know why I didn't find openstreetmap.org when I was searching about for
'royalty free' mapping last week. Now that you've mentioned the site I'm all
grins. Thanks very much Jon. :)
There's anot a huge amount of data there yet, it's still in the very
early stages,
On Friday 09 September 2005 18:36, Jon Stockill wrote:
There's anot a huge amount of data there yet, it's still in the very
early stages, but if you own a GPS you could help change that ;-)
I think I can get access to a suitable GPS but with fuel prices at £1/litre I
think I'm going to be
Dave Martin wrote:
I think I can get access to a suitable GPS but with fuel prices at £1/litre I
think I'm going to be dusting off my bicycle and getting some much-needed
exercise ;)
Inspired by the charity tube challenge a couple of weeks ago I'm
currently considering making use of a day
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