Hi, Gerard Robin schrieb:
Great, You probably did spend a lot of time.
Yes, we did ;-) However, the digitising effort is quite relaxing - clearing your mind of any thoughts which may bother you. Especially after a hard day at work ;-)
And we learnt a lot about our own area - and still keep learning. We have a lot of towns with funny names here.
Not to forget we get to fly above our home area ;-) Even on the first round trips around the scenery you can still find new details you didn't actually notice before during digitalisation.
As soon as I get time I'll document the process somewhat, hoping to get others started. This is quite a good field for improvement in FlightGear if you're unable to help with the coding. Let's see what comes around with Martin Spott's PostGIS server. Perhaps we'll see more improved scenery from other areas of the world soon.
For the US-areas appropriate base material in the form of arial photos is quite easy to get (terraserver-usa.com, etc.). When I get around to doing a tutorial (working with GRASS, making scenery out of it, etc.), I'll try doing some part of San Francisco for the "demo" scenery from the standard data package.
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