Hi Martin, Re: CLC2000v13
> CLC is CORINE Land Cover, a project of the EEA, the European > Environmental Agency and therefore covers Europe only. I have > to admit that the error message is a bit misleading and will > try to imagine a more appropriate report. Yes, the page already clearly says "use reasonable coordinates in order to avoid nasty error messages.", and a 404 error is certainly quite nasty ;=)) as well as misleading... Maybe you could add to the web page - "Do not be stupid enough to request say the area around YGIL in say the CLC2000v13 (CORINE) dataset!"... And hopefully politely give an error like - "coordinates used are out of dataset range, Dummy!" I tried this again with a 4x4 around LFPZ N 50 S 46 W 0 E 4, and got an 82MB zip, which expanded to 106MB, 128 files, 32 shapefiles, and all looks fine... thanks... Re: OpenStreetMap >> ... BUT contains just one file, COPYING??? > Mmmmh, I have to admit this sounds like a bug. I'll check. > Might/should be working now, at least my own test was successful, Ok, tried my YGIL again, N -29 S -33 W 146 E 150, and while the 1.4MB zip again still included the COPYING file, also got 16 osm_???? shapefiles, total 65 files... so this looks good... So all appears good on the web page downloading ;=)) As stated, have yet to got around to testing 'programmed' downloading, but will soonest... and yell if there is a problem... A little off topic, but what application can I use to 'view' shapefiles in Ubuntu? Any simple suggestions? I would like a simple say - $ viewshape osm_runway [osm_taxiway ...] and it chooses a scale, and draws the lines... The TG tool shpdump does a nice job of showing all the coordinates, but it is not 'graphical'... I have explored a few like 'ArcGIS Explorer', and some others I found, even tried GMT, with 140 odd tools, but this seems another steep learning curve ;=(( and found some windows only 'Shape Viewers'... Anyone with some 'simple' suggestions for unix? Regards, Geoff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
