Re: [Flightgear-users] More than one waypoint of the same name

2005-11-15 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 00:24, Innis Cunningham wrote: Well as far as the fixes go no I think the fixes are valid,see Paul's comments, OK, I don't really make use of the fixes so I've not investigated them much yet. If that airfield is named correctly then the problem comes back to FG if

Re: [Flightgear-users] More than one waypoint of the same name

2005-11-14 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Sunday 13 November 2005 04:04, Innis Cunningham wrote: As at a casual glance there seems to be many instances of more than one waypoint with the same name in the data base Not just fixes, either - airfields, too. EG73 (Fearn) for example, once worked fine - but somewhere along the line,

Re: [Flightgear-users] More than one waypoint of the same name

2005-11-14 Thread Josh Babcock
AJ MacLeod wrote: On Sunday 13 November 2005 04:04, Innis Cunningham wrote: As at a casual glance there seems to be many instances of more than one waypoint with the same name in the data base Not just fixes, either - airfields, too. EG73 (Fearn) for example, once worked fine - but

Re: [Flightgear-users] More than one waypoint of the same name

2005-11-14 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Not just fixes, either - airfields, too. EG73 (Fearn) for example, once worked fine - but somewhere along the line, somebody added some tiny strip in Englandshire and called it (incorrectly, AFAIK) EG73 too. I don't think this is the only example, either... Must this sort of thing be sorted

Re: [Flightgear-users] More than one waypoint of the same name

2005-11-14 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Monday 14 November 2005 13:07, Josh Babcock wrote: Airport data gets periodically overwritten by Robin's data, so yes. Plus, it is the polite thing to do. X-Plane users aren't bad people, just a little misdirected. Heck, I used to be one :) I would drop him an e-mail pointing out the

Re: [Flightgear-users] More than one waypoint of the same name

2005-11-14 Thread Innis Cunningham
AJ MacLeod writes On Sunday 13 November 2005 04:04, Innis Cunningham wrote: As at a casual glance there seems to be many instances of more than one waypoint with the same name in the data base Not just fixes, either - airfields, too. EG73 (Fearn) for example, once worked fine - but

Re: [Flightgear-users] More than one waypoint of the same name

2005-11-13 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday 13 November 2005 11:22, Innis Cunningham wrote: Yep and I found two of them in a row RIC08 being one and the other one escapes me at the moment. Anyway that is not the problem.The problem is FG choosing to fly to the one that is 15000 miles away over the one that is 50 miles away.

Re: [Flightgear-users] More than one waypoint of the same name

2005-11-13 Thread Innis Cunningham
Vassilii Khachaturov writes On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Innis Cunningham wrote: Yep and I found two of them in a row RIC08 being one and the other one escapes me at the moment. Anyway that is not the problem.The problem is FG choosing to fly to the one that is 15000 miles away over the one

Re: [Flightgear-users] More than one waypoint of the same name

2005-11-12 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday 13 November 2005 06:20, Josh Babcock wrote: With 26^5 (11881376) possible identifiers You'd think there wouldn't be any duplicates. Actually, I just checked fix.dat.gz, and it came up with 70011 entries whether I did a sort -u on it or just counted the entries. This should mean that