Steve Hosgood wrote:
The main fgfs website only lists scenery for 0.9.8
Is world scenery for 0.9.9 waiting for a stable, offical 0.9.9 release
first?
There is a current world scenery rebuild in progress. We are currently
hung up on a data processing glitch that is being worked on. The
scenery and the source release can and will happen independently.
Rebuilding the world (and trying to fix bugs and improve the result at
the same time) is a massive undertaking. The new world will be based on
SRTM v2 data supplimented with USGS DEM data to fill in the voids where
possible, i.e. in the usa. The grand canyon and rhode island will be
much better. These places glitched out in SRTM and portions never got
properly mapped. I also did a complete overhaul of the airport surface
generation scheme and tossed the old nurbs approach because the nurbs++
code is not maintained and is increasingly difficult to compile on
modern systems. We are now trying to process the shapefile conversion
of the vmap data. If we can crack this, then that opens the doors to
future user fixes and contributions of land cover/land use data, lakes,
rivers, roads, etc.
I've been posting very brief notes and updates on the scenery rebuild to
my personal web page (along with a variety of other stuff that probably
isn't of great concern to most people in FlightGear land.)
http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/
Curt.
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Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt
HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org
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