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Ralf Gerlich wrote: > Hi! > > AnMaster wrote: >> Very nice, exactly what data is this scenery generated from and why can't it >> be used for all of flightgear's scenery? In my opinion the current scenery is >> plain ugly. > > Some of the information about the data sources can be found on the > project homepage: > > http://www.custom-scenery.org/Oshkosh-Scenery.338.0.html > > Part of the data is based on a "new" method of automatic landcover > classification from Landsat satellite imagery. The method is not "new" > in that it is well-known in other areas. The method is "new" in the > sense, that it was not yet applied to FlightGear scenery generation. So, could scenery be "mass generated" with this method for all parts of the word it exist for? I understand scenery would be larger but with terrasync I only need to get the part I fly over anyway (for "official" scenery). > > The other part of the data is from the U.S. Census Bureau TIGER dataset, > which is highly detailed and accurate, but only available for the US (or > even only parts thereof, not sure currently). Ouch, I'm mostly interested in Europe (Sweden mainly). >> Also is this scenery being generated for some event (like the linuxtag add on >> scenery was)? In that case what event exactly? > > The occasion is that a request was some month ago to rebuild the scenery > for the Oshkosh EAA AirVenture, which is to take place next week. > > We are currently still in a pre-automation stage for the classification > methodology. We hope to get "series-production" running at some point > where a set of powerful computers (which will probably be provided by > the OSGeo foundation) will perform the classification worldwide, leading > to a hopefully complete landuse dataset of the whole world. OSGeo? Who are they? > > What we could also improve on the scenery in a much more simple step > would be to improve the textures. The current textures are much too > contrast-poor. At least that's my impression when I compare what I see > from above and what I see in FlightGear. Unfortunately, I'm not good at > knowing in advance what will look good, I just see when it doesn't look > good. > > Cheers, > Ralf Also where can I get the scenery, the link "The scenery is available at ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/Misc_rag/scenery/landsat_oshkosh."; redirects to a German page (http://www.uni-duisburg-essen.de/materialtechnik/) that I can't read... :( Regards, AnMaster -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGnSWzWmK6ng/aMNkRClhEAKCUY788EBhVEBIoqjGESeXxTWuxIgCeJ0sN n4jzcvSfa8ra1rOBWQQ3r4c= =0jpt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
