"dene maxwell" wrote: > Having read the posts concerning the World Scenery Databse and other > associated posts, I am concerned that I won't be able to share the changes I > have made to the scenery tiles around my local (NZWN) with others.
This is sad but in fact it's the case. One of the major goals of the centralized database effort is just to avoid further disappointments of the sort you feel now. If you look into the mailing list archives of FlightGear(-devel) and FGSD, then you'll find tracks of this process in there. Frederic himself has started the 'official' part of the discussion by noticing that he'd work towards using "primitives". In other words: Your disappointment was predictable .... BUT: You still can share your current scenery files with others and people will be able to use them as long as they fit into the auto-generated, 'official' scenery. Once the auto-generated scenery is built using different, more precise elevation data you might get into trouble because the boundaries won't fit any more. This is where our effort comes in: Once people start submitting their changes in a 'portable' way, they will happily find their contribution being incorporated in every next scenery build - and I kindly hope you will follow this path together with us. > It seems most of the mechanisms to provide changes in a format that can be > submitted to the World Scenery Database (WSD) are based around *nix systems > and programs. Will I ( as a win32 users) be able to submit in a > useful/usable form, my updates, that I have used Fred's FGSD to produce? The database itself is running on a Unix system, but, hey, we tried to make sure to be as much open as possible: The client libraries to the database are available on almost every platform, the programming interface is well-documented (see http://www.custom-scenery.org/Submissions.261.0.html). Frederic usually makes sure that FGSD runs on Windows, there is QGIS on Windows which makes a nice viewer, there is uDIG which runs on Windows as well (as it's written with Java/Eclipse), GRASS is available on Windows (although this might be a tricky part ....). As already being said, the updates you've been making with the old version (up to 3.x of FGSD) will never make it into the database but I expect future versions of FGSD to be able to export a format that us suitable. Frederic won't be able to finish the task overnight but as far as I can tell he's on the 'right' (TM) track :-) Hi Frederic, do you feel ok. !? ;-) Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
