Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landsat 7 data for FlightGear

2004-09-25 Thread Boris Koenig
Georg Vollnhals wrote: I use commercial data since a long time (DSat5) for FLY!II and X-Plane but as license agreements forbid giving it to the community I worked with low-res Landsat 7 data (and SRTM elevation data) and developed tools (Win32, Delphi) for improving picture quality, cutting and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landsat 7 data for FlightGear

2004-09-25 Thread Erik Hofman
Georg Vollnhals wrote: http://www.nord-com.net/vollnhals-bremen/landsat_7.htm These screenshots are rather old and made for other purposes. But you may see the limits of these low-res satellite data. They are good as a very realistic background but you loose important landmarks (smaller streets,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landsat 7 data for FlightGear

2004-09-25 Thread Oliver C.
On Saturday 25 September 2004 06:18, Georg Vollnhals wrote: Hi all, it is a wonderful idea to improve FlightGear with satellite image derived textures, SRTM elevation data and a new grafic-engine as Manuel Massing [EMAIL PROTECTED] suggested. I use commercial data since a long time (DSat5)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landsat 7 data for FlightGear

2004-09-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:42:34 +0200, Boris wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Georg Vollnhals wrote: I use commercial data since a long time (DSat5) for FLY!II and X-Plane but as license agreements forbid giving it to the community I worked with low-res Landsat 7 data (and SRTM elevation

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landsat 7 data for FlightGear

2004-09-25 Thread Manuel Massing
Hello Georg, thanks for your input! These screenshots are rather old and made for other purposes. But you may see the limits of these low-res satellite data. They are good as a very realistic background but you loose important landmarks (smaller streets, railway-tracks, smaller rivers ..).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landsat 7 data for FlightGear

2004-09-25 Thread Boris Koenig
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:42:34 +0200, Boris wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The (German) description for the second version explicitly states the right to export images and use them 'commercially'. ..that is the precise legal meaning of Mit der Business-Version erhalten Sie