Hi Ampere, I really don't want to pursue an arguement about right and wrong... the approaches are different and each has it's merits .. I would have really liked to have your tools available to me when I started converting the current FAA diagram
>On Monday 12 June 2006 19:47, dene maxwell wrote: > > Unfortunately the data kept by FAA/CAA or what ever the local > > administration is called is often out-of-date or just plain wrong. > > Experience of the last month has taught me that. Poring over aerial >photos > > and current third-party documentation has shown significant >discrepencies. >Keep in mind that those FAA/CAA diagrams are being used in real aviation >right >now, not the aerial photos or third-party documentation. While I would not >rule out that that those airport diagrams may contain errors, I am more >certain that the aerial photos and third-party documentation you mentioned >are the ones that are wrong. refer; http://airventure2006.blogspot.com/2006/06/kosh-apt-810-layout.html this is the data out of the apt-810 file represented in TaxiDraw and also appears in FGFS Scenery 09.10 http://airventure2006.blogspot.com/2006/06/faa-representation-of-kosh.html this is the current FAA representation of KOSH, note is does have taxiway "Alpha" and taxiway "Papa" is connected to the end of rwy22. http://airventure2006.blogspot.com/2006/06/aerial-photo-photo-only-2-years-old.html this is a 2-year old aerial photo.... notice the additional grass taxiways to the right and left of runway 36/18, the surarface types on runways 22 & 31 I have heaps more evidence of the various anomalies between the various documention sources and RL.... but I don't want to "prove you wrong" ... can we agree that TaxiDraw provides certain functionality at the moment that works with the current format of apt.dat... any replacement should provide the same functionality OR a mechanism whereby that functionality is not needed? is there away to convert svg format to btg to avoid TerrorGear? > > > IIRC the French > > CAA diagrams don't even have lat/long references apart from the various > > navaid locations. >Yes they do. Not Toulouse http://airventure2006.blogspot.com/2006/06/toulouse-aip.html > >Ampere > > Mate, I am really interested in the work you're doing and see real benefit it in.... as I said before right/wrong is not on my agenda ...how do we achieve the best given a starting point and a goal is. best regards :-D ene _________________________________________________________________ Become a fitness fanatic @ http://xtramsn.co.nz/health _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
