Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 1.0.0 coastline is not processed

2008-03-21 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi all!

gerard robin wrote:
[SNIP]
 You could notice that  apt VHHH is now , not an island but on full ground area

Thanks for the reports.

For your information: From the VHHH-tile I was actually able to identify
the actual trigger for the buggy tiles.

The trigger does lie in the modifications. Note that I'm talking about
the trigger, not about the origin, as the part of the algorithm I
modified actually is robust and correct - in contrast to the old version
of that algorithm.

I was able to verify that the data the modified part of the algorithm
delivers is correct even in the case of the buggy tiles, but the rest of
the TerraGear build chain cannot handle these correct results.

The seemingly obvious fix - reverting to the old algorithm - isn't a
fix. The reason for the modification in the first place were tiles
consistently failing to build, without a workaround or other fix. Here
the old algorithm was not robust enough for the data it got. Reverting
to the old algorithm would therefore make these failed tiles reappear.

Cheers,
Ralf

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 1.0.0 coastline is not processed

2008-03-21 Thread AnMaster
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It does indeed look like 0.9.8 had best coast line. Why is it so much worse in 
more recent
scenery? Wouldn't it be possible to get the same good coastline as in 0.9.8?

Regards,

Arvid Norlander

gerard robin wrote:
| On jeu 20 mars 2008, gerard robin wrote:
| On jeu 20 mars 2008, Alex Romosan wrote:
| Ralf Gerlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Scenery V1.0.0 has been built using VMAP0 landmass and shoreline data.
| scenery v0.9.8 was also built with the vmap0 landmass and shoreline
| data.
|
| looking at:
| http://mapserver.flightgear.org/openlayers_sfobay.html?zoom=13lat=37.862
| 84 lon=-122.28796layers=B0TFFTFTT (this is the bay area). i am not
| really sure how to interpret the
| colours but if you look at the berkeley coastline in v1.0.0 you'll see
| that the berkeley marina is missing, big chunks of alameda are also
| missing, and so on. on the above map it looks like the actual coast is
| outlined in a red line, then there is some white (same as the water)
| and then there are the red and green chunks (which is the scenery in
| v1.0.0). the berkeley marina is present in 0.9.8 (but it disappeared
| in subsequent scenery releases). something is wrong (and it's been
| wrong for a long time). it will be interesting to compare the current
| algorithm with the one used to generate the coastline in 0.9.8 to try
| to understand why all these things have disappeared.
|
| --alex--
| Hello,
|
| Regarding Hong-KongLat 22.296  deg and Lon 113.898 here are snapshots:
|
| That one from mapserver.flightgear.org
|
| http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/mapserver.flightgear.org_Hong-Kong.jpg
|
| That one with 0.9.8 scenery
| http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/Scenery-0.9.8_Hong-Kong.jpg
|
| And That one with 1.00 scenery
| http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/Scenery-1.00_Hong-Kong.jpg
|
| You could notice that  apt VHHH is now , not an island but on full ground
| area
|
| Cheers
|
| And with 0.9.10 which is not so good than 0.9.8 about Hong Kong bay (we don't
| see it here), but in any case better than 1.00
|
| http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/Scenery-0.9.9_Hong-Kong.jpg
|
|
|
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 1.0.0 coastline is not processed

2008-03-21 Thread Curtis Olson
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:00 AM, AnMaster wrote:

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 It does indeed look like 0.9.8 had best coast line. Why is it so much
 worse in more recent
 scenery? Wouldn't it be possible to get the same good coastline as in
 0.9.8?


As with anything, it's not quite that simple.  The GHSSH coastline database
(used in 0.9.8) is indeed more accurate for ocean coastlines.  However, for
any inland fresh water, it is much worse/less detailed than vmap0.  So in
0.9.8 we used GHSSH for coastlines and VMAP0 for lakes  rivers.

However, we found that there were major discrepancies between the two
databases. For instance, lake washington near seattle is classified as lake
by GHSSH and ocean by vmap0, so it simply did not appear in 0.9.8.
Similarly there were things that were classified as ocean by GHSSH and lake
by vmap0 so they were both drawn on top of each other.

The decision was made to go with vmap0 entirely.  We gave up accuracy around
the coast lines, but we gained a much more consistent picture of the world
... with no major missing bits and no overlapping sections.

Originally we only used GHSSH defined waterways, but this let to major
problems, like the great lakes only being half defined (i.e. the canadian
side of the lakes was not mapped so there was only land there.)  And
strangely, some Canadian's complained about that! :-) So we went to the
mixed GHSSH-Ocean/VMAP0-fresh-water scheme, but people complained about the
missing water that fell in the gaps between both dataset classifications.
So then we went to vmap0, but now people are complaining about less detailed
coast lines!

What combination should we try next? :-)

Regards,

Curt.
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 1.0.0 coastline is not processed

2008-03-21 Thread Ralf Gerlich
One thing to add...

Ralf Gerlich wrote:
 Currently there is no shapefile version of GSHHS 1.5, which was
 available for 1.3, so we need to get some tool to import the custom
 binary format of GSHHS into the database, including the handling of
 shorelines crossing the dateline, etc (e.g. Eurasia continent definition).
 
 Yes, this is on my TODO-list, and no, it's not on top.

...volunteers welcome ;-)

The goal is to have something like a generic gshhs2ogr-converter that
can convert gshhs to any format supported by the OGR library and outputs
the data properly clipped to -180=lon=180, -90=lat=90. A tool
independent of TerraGear but possibly using gpc would be favoured.

One of the OGR-supported formats is PostgreSQL, which is the database
software we are using on mapserver.flightgear.org.

Cheers,
Ralf

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 1.0.0 coastline is not processed

2008-03-21 Thread AnMaster
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Curtis Olson wrote:
| On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:00 AM, AnMaster wrote:
|
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| It does indeed look like 0.9.8 had best coast line. Why is it so much
| worse in more recent
| scenery? Wouldn't it be possible to get the same good coastline as in
| 0.9.8?
|
|
| As with anything, it's not quite that simple.  The GHSSH coastline database
| (used in 0.9.8) is indeed more accurate for ocean coastlines.  However, for
| any inland fresh water, it is much worse/less detailed than vmap0.  So in
| 0.9.8 we used GHSSH for coastlines and VMAP0 for lakes  rivers.
|
| However, we found that there were major discrepancies between the two
| databases. For instance, lake washington near seattle is classified as lake
| by GHSSH and ocean by vmap0, so it simply did not appear in 0.9.8.
| Similarly there were things that were classified as ocean by GHSSH and lake
| by vmap0 so they were both drawn on top of each other.
|
| The decision was made to go with vmap0 entirely.  We gave up accuracy around
| the coast lines, but we gained a much more consistent picture of the world
| ... with no major missing bits and no overlapping sections.
|
| Originally we only used GHSSH defined waterways, but this let to major
| problems, like the great lakes only being half defined (i.e. the canadian
| side of the lakes was not mapped so there was only land there.)  And
| strangely, some Canadian's complained about that! :-) So we went to the
| mixed GHSSH-Ocean/VMAP0-fresh-water scheme, but people complained about the
| missing water that fell in the gaps between both dataset classifications.
| So then we went to vmap0, but now people are complaining about less detailed
| coast lines!
|
| What combination should we try next? :-)
Good question, I guess combining them and manually fixing the problems would be 
too much
work. I got no really good solution. But the current coastlines are very bad in 
many cases.

What about only using GHSSH for those coastlines around continents? With that I 
mean coast
line  around, say, North and south America, Europe/Africa/Asia (that, apart 
from the Suez
channel, are connected), Australia and any islands, and simply discard any 
coastlines
inside these blocks and use vmap0 there. That is: don't trust how vmap0/GHSSH 
classify
the data. Would that be feasible?


Regards,

Arvid Norlander
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 1.0.0 coastline is not processed

2008-03-21 Thread Ralf Gerlich
AnMaster wrote:
 Good question, I guess combining them and manually fixing the problems would 
 be too much
 work. I got no really good solution. But the current coastlines are very bad 
 in many cases.
 
 What about only using GHSSH for those coastlines around continents? With that 
 I mean coast
 line  around, say, North and south America, Europe/Africa/Asia (that, apart 
 from the Suez
 channel, are connected), Australia and any islands, and simply discard any 
 coastlines
 inside these blocks and use vmap0 there. That is: don't trust how 
 vmap0/GHSSH classify
 the data. Would that be feasible?

Feasible, as GSHHS explicitly makes the outer coastlines available and
differentiates them from inner shorelines, but it wouldn't solve the
problems with inconsistent waterways at the coastlines of continents.

Even though that is a lot of work, manually adapting our VMAP0-based
data to the GSHHS-data is the only solution I currently see.

Cheers,
Ralf


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 1.0.0 coastline is not processed

2008-03-21 Thread Curtis Olson
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Ralf Gerlich wrote:

 AnMaster wrote:
  Good question, I guess combining them and manually fixing the problems
 would be too much
  work. I got no really good solution. But the current coastlines are very
 bad in many cases.
 
  What about only using GHSSH for those coastlines around continents? With
 that I mean coast
  line  around, say, North and south America, Europe/Africa/Asia (that,
 apart from the Suez
  channel, are connected), Australia and any islands, and simply discard
 any coastlines
  inside these blocks and use vmap0 there. That is: don't trust how
 vmap0/GHSSH classify
  the data. Would that be feasible?

 Feasible, as GSHHS explicitly makes the outer coastlines available and
 differentiates them from inner shorelines, but it wouldn't solve the
 problems with inconsistent waterways at the coastlines of continents.

 Even though that is a lot of work, manually adapting our VMAP0-based
 data to the GSHHS-data is the only solution I currently see.


Right, this is basically what we did for 0.9.8 and ended up with a bazillion
inconsistancies ...

Areas marked as lake/river in GSHHS but ocean in vmap0 will be entirely
skipped.
Areas marked as ocean in GSHHS and lake/river in vmap0 will be doubled up
and overlapped.
VMAP0 rivers may run short of the GSHHS coastline.
etc.

There's no combination of these two datasets you can do perfectly with an
automated system.  You would need a tremendous amount of effort to visually
inspect the entire data set and resolve any problems manually.

Regards,

Curt.
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound problem stops FG start

2008-03-21 Thread LeeE
On Friday 21 March 2008 01:07, Innis Cunningham wrote:
  Hi Lee

 DETAILS WERE HERE

  On Thursday 20 March 2008 13:29, Innis Cunningham wrote:
  Hi Lee
 
  Hi Innis,
 
  first of all, I just noticed that your replies are including
  e-mail addresses - if they're not obfuscated in the mailing
  list archives they'll be harvested for spam.  Could you check
  your e-mailer settings to make sure they're not included in
  the body of the posting?
 
  I am not sure what you mean I use hotmail what are you seeing
  that I should look into.
 
  That's odd.  This one has come through without the e-mail
  addresses in the body.  Have a look at your copies of this
  thread and check your sent folder to see if you can see them in
  your first reply to me, posted at 15:15 on 2008-03-19, then
  re-quoted in my reply back to you at 15:35 on 2008-03-19.  Then
  finally, it's all quoted again when you replied at 01:41 on
  2008-03-20.
 
  Strange, but there's a reason for it somewhere.  Hasn't
  happened this time, so it's more of a curiosity than a problem.

 Ok I think I know what you are talking about there should be
 nothing at the top of the email were I put details were here.I
 have always stripped that information off when I reply but this
 time I was just lazy is it supposed to be stripped off
 automaticly.I will keep that in mind in future

Glad we got that clarified:)  Stripping the info out, or only 
including the body text, is usually the normal behaviour for e-mail 
clients and I'd expect web-mail clients to do the same.  Perhaps 
there's a setting somewhere in your Hotmail settings, or perhaps it 
just doesn't work properly - wouldn't be the first time that a bug 
has appeared in a bit of software:)

  Re the sound problem - If you get an identical error,
  referring to exactly the same file, after removing the mkviii
  folder it implies to me that the mkviii relies upon code
  that's been built into FG and it's been done in such a way
  that it means that the FG code consequently requires the
  mkviii folder to run, even if it's not used.
 
  I have got my sound working now so I can hear the sounds as
  well as see them playing but still FG bails out with the same
  error. As this was a Ubuntu package that I installed I would
  have though it would have worked.But does OpenAL need a 64 bit
  version to work with a 64bit CPU.As I say I do not have this
  problem running this same package on a 32bit machine
 
  Therefore, you've got to fix your OpenAL, which is what Eric
  said.
 
  LeeE
 
  Thanks again for your help and let me know about the email
  problem as I am no guru in this area.
 
  Cheers
  Innis
 
  Heh:) - I'm no guru either.  Did you fix the sound by
  installing new/updated OpenAL packages?  If so, have you
  re-compiled everything to pick up the new packages?

 No the onboard sound I have is usb audio(new to me)I had to
 change some Ubuntu settings to make it work.As far as I can
 tell I have the correct OpenAL package for the 32bit version of
 of Ubuntu 7.10(gutsy)I am running.I guess I would have to
 force install or build from source to use a different package.
 I guess FG wont run if it does not OpenAL

  LeeE

 Cheers
 Innis

I'm a bit at a loss for further suggestions - if OpenAL is working 
ok with your other apps there's no reason why it shouldn't work 
with FG.  The actual audio device shouldn't make any difference 
because that sits on the other side of OpenAL and FG shouldn't be 
trying to talk to the sound hardware directly.

LeeE

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 1.0.0 coastline is not processed

2008-03-21 Thread LeeE
On Friday 21 March 2008 17:13, Curtis Olson wrote:
 On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Ralf Gerlich wrote:
  AnMaster wrote:
   Good question, I guess combining them and manually fixing the
   problems
 
  would be too much
 
   work. I got no really good solution. But the current
   coastlines are very
 
  bad in many cases.
 
   What about only using GHSSH for those coastlines around
   continents? With
 
  that I mean coast
 
   line  around, say, North and south America,
   Europe/Africa/Asia (that,
 
  apart from the Suez
 
   channel, are connected), Australia and any islands, and
   simply discard
 
  any coastlines
 
   inside these blocks and use vmap0 there. That is: don't
   trust how
 
  vmap0/GHSSH classify
 
   the data. Would that be feasible?
 
  Feasible, as GSHHS explicitly makes the outer coastlines
  available and differentiates them from inner shorelines, but it
  wouldn't solve the problems with inconsistent waterways at the
  coastlines of continents.
 
  Even though that is a lot of work, manually adapting our
  VMAP0-based data to the GSHHS-data is the only solution I
  currently see.

 Right, this is basically what we did for 0.9.8 and ended up with
 a bazillion inconsistancies ...

 Areas marked as lake/river in GSHHS but ocean in vmap0 will be
 entirely skipped.
 Areas marked as ocean in GSHHS and lake/river in vmap0 will be
 doubled up and overlapped.
 VMAP0 rivers may run short of the GSHHS coastline.
 etc.

 There's no combination of these two datasets you can do perfectly
 with an automated system.  You would need a tremendous amount of
 effort to visually inspect the entire data set and resolve any
 problems manually.

 Regards,

 Curt.

So it looks like we either live with the problem until someone else 
creates a new database with all the problems fixed, or bite the 
bullet and fix it manually ourselves.

Would it be possible to cobble together a small utility that would 
allow small parcels of the scenery database e.g. 1x1 deg tiles, to 
be checked and corrected manually without setting up the full 
scenery build system?  That way, many people could work on it 
whenever they feel like it.  I've had to do this sort of manual 
data correlation/verification a couple of times over the years, on 
different projects I've worked on, and while it sounds like an 
onerous and tedious task it's not too bad if you can just do bits 
of it, now and then, as a break from your primary tasks.

Obviously, it would be a slow and long-term undertaking but at least 
the problem would be fixed eventually, whereas the alternative 
seems to be that it never gets fixed and we just have to live with 
it.

LeeE

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 1.0.0 coastline is not processed

2008-03-21 Thread Norman Vine
LeeE writes:
 
 Would it be possible to cobble together a small utility that would 
 allow small parcels of the scenery database e.g. 1x1 deg tiles, to 
 be checked and corrected manually without setting up the full 
 scenery build system?  That way, many people could work on it 
 whenever they feel like it.  I've had to do this sort of manual 
 data correlation/verification a couple of times over the years, on 
 different projects I've worked on, and while it sounds like an 
 onerous and tedious task it's not too bad if you can just do bits 
 of it, now and then, as a break from your primary tasks.
 
 Obviously, it would be a slow and long-term undertaking but at least 
 the problem would be fixed eventually, whereas the alternative 
 seems to be that it never gets fixed and we just have to live with 
 it.

A little birdie told me that the OSM project is about doing just this :-)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page

Note that the same services that host mapserver.flightgear.org and 
were used to build the latest fgfs scenery, host the development 
database of OSM

Cheers

Norman


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery 1.0.0 coastline is not processed

2008-03-21 Thread Ralf Gerlich
LeeE wrote:
 So it looks like we either live with the problem until someone else 
 creates a new database with all the problems fixed, or bite the 
 bullet and fix it manually ourselves.

Yep, that's the spirit ;-)

 Would it be possible to cobble together a small utility that would 
 allow small parcels of the scenery database e.g. 1x1 deg tiles, to 
 be checked and corrected manually without setting up the full 
 scenery build system?  That way, many people could work on it 
 whenever they feel like it.  I've had to do this sort of manual 
 data correlation/verification a couple of times over the years, on 
 different projects I've worked on, and while it sounds like an 
 onerous and tedious task it's not too bad if you can just do bits 
 of it, now and then, as a break from your primary tasks.

You could use qgis or any other GIS for that. No need to work on scenery
files and no need for firing up the scenery generation system at all.

It would still be possible to allocate the tasks in 1x1 deg tile portions.

Still someone would have to implement that logic in a convenient way for
editors to use.

Cheers,
Ralf

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound problem stops FG start

2008-03-21 Thread Innis Cunningham

 Hi Lee
 
 On Friday 21 March 2008 01:07, Innis Cunningham wrote:
  Hi Lee

 DETAILS WERE HERE

 On Thursday 20 March 2008 13:29, Innis Cunningham wrote:
 Hi Lee

 Hi Innis,

 first of all, I just noticed that your replies are including
 e-mail addresses - if they're not obfuscated in the mailing
 list archives they'll be harvested for spam.  Could you check
 your e-mailer settings to make sure they're not included in
 the body of the posting?

 I am not sure what you mean I use hotmail what are you seeing
 that I should look into.

 That's odd.  This one has come through without the e-mail
 addresses in the body.  Have a look at your copies of this
 thread and check your sent folder to see if you can see them in
 your first reply to me, posted at 15:15 on 2008-03-19, then
 re-quoted in my reply back to you at 15:35 on 2008-03-19.  Then
 finally, it's all quoted again when you replied at 01:41 on
 2008-03-20.

 Strange, but there's a reason for it somewhere.  Hasn't
 happened this time, so it's more of a curiosity than a problem.

 Ok I think I know what you are talking about there should be
 nothing at the top of the email were I put details were here.I
 have always stripped that information off when I reply but this
 time I was just lazy is it supposed to be stripped off
 automaticly.I will keep that in mind in future
 
 Glad we got that clarified:)  Stripping the info out, or only 
 including the body text, is usually the normal behaviour for e-mail 
 clients and I'd expect web-mail clients to do the same.  Perhaps 
 there's a setting somewhere in your Hotmail settings, or perhaps it 
 just doesn't work properly - wouldn't be the first time that a bug 
 has appeared in a bit of software:)

 Re the sound problem - If you get an identical error,
 referring to exactly the same file, after removing the mkviii
 folder it implies to me that the mkviii relies upon code
 that's been built into FG and it's been done in such a way
 that it means that the FG code consequently requires the
 mkviii folder to run, even if it's not used.

 I have got my sound working now so I can hear the sounds as
 well as see them playing but still FG bails out with the same
 error. As this was a Ubuntu package that I installed I would
 have though it would have worked.But does OpenAL need a 64 bit
 version to work with a 64bit CPU.As I say I do not have this
 problem running this same package on a 32bit machine

 Therefore, you've got to fix your OpenAL, which is what Eric
 said.

 LeeE

 Thanks again for your help and let me know about the email
 problem as I am no guru in this area.

 Cheers
 Innis

 Heh:) - I'm no guru either.  Did you fix the sound by
 installing new/updated OpenAL packages?  If so, have you
 re-compiled everything to pick up the new packages?

 No the onboard sound I have is usb audio(new to me)I had to
 change some Ubuntu settings to make it work.As far as I can
 tell I have the correct OpenAL package for the 32bit version of
 of Ubuntu 7.10(gutsy)I am running.I guess I would have to
 force install or build from source to use a different package.
 I guess FG wont run if it does not OpenAL

 LeeE

 Cheers
 Innis
 
 I'm a bit at a loss for further suggestions - if OpenAL is working 
 ok with your other apps there's no reason why it shouldn't work 
 with FG.  The actual audio device shouldn't make any difference 
 because that sits on the other side of OpenAL and FG shouldn't be 
 trying to talk to the sound hardware directly.
Well everything seems to be working now but the upshot of it is I dont
know exactly why.I used the asound command on the command line to reset
my audio device and sometime after that it all worked.
Murphy's law kicked in I was just finishing a long post to the Ubuntu
forum and I needed to quote the exact error I was getting so I booted
FG from the CLI and the next thing I know I am sitting at KSFO.Go figure.
Anyway Thank you very much for your help with this.
Now all Ineed is to get my two computers to talk to one another on the NFS.
They talk to the Bxxxdy widows computer but not to one another.
I think my linux computers have a serious communications problem.:-)
 
 LeeE
 
Cheers
Innis
 
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