Re: [Flightgear-devel] itoa? sprintf?

2004-05-26 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2004 03:41, David Megginson wrote: > > What is the best way (most supported, cross-platform) to turn an integer > > into an STL string type? Or, even an ASCII char[]? > > > > It seems that itoa() is not totally common. > > snprintf() is in ISO C99 but not ANSI C -- you could

Re: [Flightgear-devel] itoa? sprintf?

2004-05-26 Thread David Megginson
Jon Berndt wrote: What is the best way (most supported, cross-platform) to turn an integer into an STL string type? Or, even an ASCII char[]? It seems that itoa() is not totally common. snprintf() is in ISO C99 but not ANSI C -- you could check to see if all of the target platforms have it. ANSI

Re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard mapping

2004-05-26 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Josh Josh Babcock writes I think that there is already stuff out there that does not conform to this, but if enough people here agree, I would be happy to chase down all those potential conflicts and mitigate them. I think that would be a good idea there seems to be enough room on the keybo

[Flightgear-devel] itoa? sprintf?

2004-05-26 Thread Jon Berndt
What is the best way (most supported, cross-platform) to turn an integer into an STL string type? Or, even an ASCII char[]? It seems that itoa() is not totally common. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Many duplicates in the new airport data.

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 26 May 2004 14:47:36 -0500 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, there are some inconsistancies with Robin's latest data ... many of > > these have been reported, hopefully he will clean these up and do a new > db release soon. Thanks, sorry, didn't know these were known

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Deb-a-day reference to FGFS

2004-05-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 26 May 2004 14:32:43 -0700 (PDT), Alex wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/ ..they've also done whitespace. ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenari

[Flightgear-devel] Deb-a-day reference to FGFS

2004-05-26 Thread Alex Perry
http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/ Tuesday, May 25th, 2004 flightgear - Flight Gear Flight Simulator This thing is huge. This package comes to our attention from Paul, a student at Griffith University in Australia. Paul says that this very large OpenGL flight simulator requires eleven CDR

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SID, STAR, and airway data

2004-05-26 Thread David Megginson
Durk Talsma wrote: However, until we are at that point of sophistication, I would rather see some standard approach and departure patterns being used than nothing at all. I agree. Unfortunately, you will find that many SIDs consist of something along the lines of - fly runway heading - maintai

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SID, STAR, and airway data

2004-05-26 Thread Durk Talsma
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 19:15, David Megginson wrote: > The reason they don't work in real life is that everyone is flying at a > different speed. There's typically one STAR for every arrival direction > (often centred around a major intersection or navaid), but ATC has IFR > traffic ranging fro

[Flightgear-devel] Chris Waltham on Aeronautics and Fluids

2004-05-26 Thread Norman Vine
A couple of interesting 'links' here http://www.physics.ubc.ca/%7Ewaltham/aero.html Norman ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Many duplicates in the new airport data.

2004-05-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Yes, there are some inconsistancies with Robin's latest data ... many of these have been reported, hopefully he will clean these up and do a new db release soon. Curt. Chris Metzler wrote: Hi. The new airport data has duplicate entries for a lot of airports. It looks like in some cases, data fo

[Flightgear-devel] Many duplicates in the new airport data.

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Metzler
Hi. The new airport data has duplicate entries for a lot of airports. It looks like in some cases, data for airports changed -- runways got moved or rotated, new taxiways got added, etc. -- so an entire new set of data for the airport went in, while the old one was still listed. There are some d

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Airports basic.dat.gz, 1.5,

2004-05-26 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Airports > In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv21708 > Modified Files: > basic.dat.gz runways.dat.gz > Log Message: > Updated airport, runway, taxiway, windsock, beacon, and tower data. Curt, would you _please_ :-) manually ch

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New airport data: whither KSQL?

2004-05-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Chris Metzler wrote: Hi. I just downloaded the new airport basic/runways files from CVS (thanks Curt!). I noticed that KSQL is no longer in the files at all. The airport itself still seems to exist in the real world (hehe). Was it removed from Robin Peel's data? Or was it never there, and was a

[Flightgear-devel] New airport data: whither KSQL?

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Metzler
Hi. I just downloaded the new airport basic/runways files from CVS (thanks Curt!). I noticed that KSQL is no longer in the files at all. The airport itself still seems to exist in the real world (hehe). Was it removed from Robin Peel's data? Or was it never there, and was an airport that we've

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SID, STAR, and airway data

2004-05-26 Thread David Megginson
Durk Talsma wrote: In February Erik Hofman mentioned that Robin Peel maintains a database of airway data, for shared use between x-plane and FlightGear. I was wondering if there's also a database of SID and STAR procedures that we could use? The reason I'm asking is that these might be extremel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Georegistered imagery

2004-05-26 Thread Mat Churchill
A good updated version of the Scenery Tutorial is here: http://glennm.orcon.net.nz/flightgear/fg-scenery-tutorial2.html Not sure why this has not been adopted on the main site. Earlier in the year I had some success with a simple method of placing photo scenery here are some results: http://fre

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SID, STAR, and airway data

2004-05-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Durk Talsma wrote: In February Erik Hofman mentioned that Robin Peel maintains a database of airway data, for shared use between x-plane and FlightGear. I was wondering if there's also a database of SID and STAR procedures that we could use? The reason I'm asking is that these might be extremel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] keyboard mapping

2004-05-26 Thread Josh Babcock
Innis Cunningham wrote: Hi Guys The other day I stumbled on the keyboard map for FG, can't find it at present,and I noticed quite a few keys that have not been alocated yet. I was wondering if a block of say ten keys could be put aside and labeled aircraft specific for things like tail hooks, A/C d

[Flightgear-devel] SID, STAR, and airway data

2004-05-26 Thread Durk Talsma
In February Erik Hofman mentioned that Robin Peel maintains a database of airway data, for shared use between x-plane and FlightGear. I was wondering if there's also a database of SID and STAR procedures that we could use? The reason I'm asking is that these might be extremely useful in develop

[Flightgear-devel] keyboard mapping

2004-05-26 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Guys The other day I stumbled on the keyboard map for FG, can't find it at present,and I noticed quite a few keys that have not been alocated yet. I was wondering if a block of say ten keys could be put aside and labeled aircraft specific for things like tail hooks, A/C doors, refueling booms an

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Georegistered imagery

2004-05-26 Thread Giles Robertson
Terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com has aerial photographs of the US and Alaska down to 1m resolution (though most of it is 10yrs old, for obvious reasons). Most of the US and Alaska, at least. No, we can't get photo-scenery for Groom Lake. They get the photographs from USGS, but I can't find out if