Norman Vine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Perhaps tie'ing it to the current waypoint makes sense ...... hmmm >
Yes, but I'd probably want to wait until I was within a few kilometers of the "current" waypoint before switching. > Also The tile_cache mechanism could be extended to keep a list of > loaded airports and this list could be queried for the closest one or > those within some range. Note that a fast 'chord distance' would work > well for this as all we are interested in is the 'relative' distance and the > since the spherical chord has a one to one maping to the geodetic > distance at the kind of scale involved here, it would be sufficient. That would do the trick. We'd need that anyway if we wanted to do an approximate model of a GPS some day. Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
