On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:06:39 -0800, you wrote: >Since my last post, I have found what I think is a better method at extracting >taxiways data from an airport diagram. Instead of converting the file to >DXF, I have converted it to SVG. Since SVG is in XML format, I was able to >do some grepping, and produce each of the followings in less than a minute.
This is a good development. I like working with SVG and my Firefox 1.5 browser can natively display the SVG images Ampere posted. The images can be worked with in Inkscape if necessary, which is a truly excellent and easy to use editor for SVG images. The format is also and open standard and is a type of XML, so it remains human readable/text editable (just in case it needs to be carved onto a stela for future generations to read). I would be happy to have accurate sized and located buildings, even if they are unattractive in appearance without their textures. The visual improvement we could see is a very exciting prospect. The proposal was to create an application where a scenery designer could load the airport diagram output and visually select the elements they wanted to included, delete others, perhaps manipulate them as in a visual scenery or airport designer. It may be possible FGSD or TaxiDraw could be adapted to help in these processes or a new application developed. I do not know which would be the best route. Currently TaxiDraw as I understand it cannot handle this kind of freeform data. We do want scenery designers to be able to tweak and refine the diagram results. The buildings could be treated separately and refinements made by bringing them into a 3d editor. I think it is reasonable to assume the taxiways are a single model, although it might be possible for the data to be broken automatically into sections. I would like to see the buildings as single models. At least where the building is isolated, it could be considered a single model. Where building shapes are connected, it would be a single model. This project would give us an edge over other sims! I like the idea of airport configuration files. It would allow users to make changes to an airport using a text editor. Steve ------------------------------------------------------- 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_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
