Hi Dave. This is great work. Seriously, it's a fabulous contribution, and I'm pumped to get started using it. I have a couple of quick questions:
> Version 0.2.2 fixes several serious bugs in the X-Plane format writer > present in 0.2.0 and 0.2.1. All users should upgrade, since X-Plane > format is becoming the default format for FlightGear in the very near > future. I'm wondering whether we know what the X-Plane format really *is*. Since the beginning of September, Robin Peel has been saying that a new set of files are coming out "next weekend, September 18." But he also says that these files won't work at all with earlier versions of X-Plane. That may simply be because of the new information content in fields that were basically dummy (see below) choking reads that don't know how to handle them; but it made me wonder if there's a file format change coming up. At the very least, his comments about being able to declare aprons separate from taxiways suggest a new record type. On a related note, since the X-Plane files are apparently going to support this soon, is there any possibility of being able to "label" taxiways with identifiers (e.g. "taxiway A")? I know that right now, we don't do anything with that information; but we might in the future, with sign placement or ground control instructions or whatever, and if people have that information and the opportunity to add it to the database, we might as well, rather than having to go back and add it later. Something along these lines (re: taxiways and aprons): http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2004-July/029106.html Finally, I'm wondering how you're going to handle conflicts between future X-Plane data releases, and changes that people have sent to you. For example, suppose an FG user sends some changes to an airport to you; and suppose some X-Plane user sends some changes to the same airport to Robin Peel (or the DAFIF changes for that airport). The next X-Plane dataset contains the changes that Robin Peel received, which are different from the ones you have. How would that get resolved? Go with theirs? Go with ours? Contact the person who sent you changes to review the situation and update? Thanks muchly. And thanks again for TaxiDraw! -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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