On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Peter Morgan wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Csaba wrote: > > During discussions on IRC, the idea came up of creating a downloadable > > bundle of the new gitorious fg-data repository. > What I want is for a someone to aqquire the "terrain for swanea and south > wales and the local patch", stick it on a memory stick with some capacity, > then bicycle up the road to a friend out on Cd, leave the bike on the lawn, > Stick in the Memory USB stick and its "cloned locally somehow".
Simply make sure the retrieved scenery snapshot on the stick follows the usual fgdata directory structure, without shortcuts for empty intermediate directories. With that, the stick can be added to the list of search directories that already gets passed to FGFS. I would argue that the Windows loader (aka unix launch script) can simply search all mountable volumes for top level directories that look suspiciously like fgdata trees and, as they are found, automatically extend the scenery command line parameter. No other magic infrastructure would be needed. If you'd like to be able to copy the files off and unplug the stick, simply do an rsync (triggered by the launcher utility) from the stick's Scenery directory into the local machine's one. > What we need to look at I thing is more a terrasyc cache and snapshot, svn > is throttled and indeed probably fine tuned my google and we can certainly > thanks them for that very reliable service. for free ;-) Terrasync could easily run multiple fetches in parallel if you don't mind having your machine and its network connection unusable for a while. Terrasync doesn't do that currently because the design assumption has been that you're trying to use the simulator at the same time and would object to any performance impact. I don't think we have country/state polygons in our current data image. If we don't have another use for the polygons, we could simply archive each country as a list of the NMEA GPS messages representing the center of each integral latitude/longitude rectangle. With one file per country, the launcher copies a user selected file into the listening UDP socket of terrasync and waits for things to go quiet. Those of us who don't like launchers can use netcat. 8-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
