Chris Metzler wrote:
hi. the radio towers introduced all over the place in the new scenery
build don't appear to be present in the copy of the default area that's
in CVS. if i use the data rsync'd from Scenery-0.9.5 for the default
area, they're all over the place; but in the copy from CVS, they
Chris Metzler wrote:
And while asking about the radio towers . . .my (perhaps wrong)
understanding is that they come from some sort of FAA obstruction
database; that's why some are at locations where large buildings
are located in real life. Is that correct? If so, why not use the
FCC's Antenna
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 07:24:21 -0500
Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Metzler wrote:
And while asking about the radio towers . . .my (perhaps wrong)
understanding is that they come from some sort of FAA obstruction
database; that's why some are at locations where large buildings
Chris Metzler wrote:
OK, so to make sure I get it, I was incorrect about an FAA obstruction
database being used; you do use the FCC ASR database. The correlation
with tall buildings is simply because some (most?) tall buildings have
antennae on the top. Is this right?
Yes.
If so, are their
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
SNIP
You used to be online mapping services that would (directly or
indirectly) get you the lat/lon of things on the image, but I think they
realized the usefulness of this and I haven't found anything for free
lately ... even mapquest seems to have gotten rid of their
Josh Babcock wrote:
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
SNIP
You used to be online mapping services that would (directly or
indirectly) get you the lat/lon of things on the image, but I think
they realized the usefulness of this and I haven't found anything for
free lately ... even mapquest seems to have
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:41:04 -0500
Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recently
modelled a 40-story building I wanted to put in its real-life location;
the latlong I'd dug up for the building didn't match any of the antenna
locations, so I didn't know what to substitute for.
You used to
Josh Babcock wrote:
terragear.microsoft.com and seamless.usgs.gov both give .5 m color
ortho photos for many major American cities, and I think 2m bw for the
rest of the US. You can get the lat/lon of the corners of the image
from both, and both also tell you the scale of the image.
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
The airport generation scripts create a beacon if there is one in the
datafile for that airport, yes. Perhaps we need a way to provide a
manually maintained exceptions list when building airports (and scenery).
Didn't Robin's data originally contain a field specifying
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
Josh Babcock wrote:
terragear.microsoft.com and seamless.usgs.gov both give .5 m color
ortho photos for many major American cities, and I think 2m bw for the
rest of the US. You can get the lat/lon of the corners of the image
from both, and both also tell you the scale
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