Good evening,
We proudly present the first export from the TerraGear landcover
database or however you prefer to name it. The contents is
exactly the same as the landcover data that has previously been used
for scenery generation - at least this is the intention.
This release serves multipl
Martin Spott wrote:
Good evening,
We proudly present the first export from the TerraGear landcover
database or however you prefer to name it. The contents is
exactly the same as the landcover data that has previously been used
for scenery generation - at least this is the intention.
Exce
On Friday 09 September 2005 12:47, Jon Stockill wrote:
> Excellent - I'll give it a try. I'm also experimenting with some early
> data from openstreetmap.org to add accurate roads to scenery.
Don't know why I didn't find openstreetmap.org when I was searching about for
'royalty free' mapping las
Dave Martin wrote:
Don't know why I didn't find openstreetmap.org when I was searching about for
'royalty free' mapping last week. Now that you've mentioned the site I'm all
grins. Thanks very much Jon. :)
There's anot a huge amount of data there yet, it's still in the very
early stages, but
On Friday 09 September 2005 18:36, Jon Stockill wrote:
> There's anot a huge amount of data there yet, it's still in the very
> early stages, but if you own a GPS you could help change that ;-)
I think I can get access to a suitable GPS but with fuel prices at £1/litre I
think I'm going to be du
Dave Martin wrote:
I think I can get access to a suitable GPS but with fuel prices at £1/litre I
think I'm going to be dusting off my bicycle and getting some much-needed
exercise ;)
Inspired by the charity tube challenge a couple of weeks ago I'm
currently considering making use of a day ti
Dave Martin wrote:
On Friday 09 September 2005 18:36, Jon Stockill wrote:
I've just finished downloading and processing all the data to get my
scenery build system back up and running after a disk crash, it's
building tiles for a test of the OSM roads at the moment. I'll grab some
screenshots wh
Hi,
Jon Stockill schrieb:
[SNIP]
Here's a couple of pics, the first is looking west over the gherkin, and
the second is looking out over regents park. Generation time was over an
hour for that tile on a 1GHz athlon (the resource limits in
fgfs-construct needed a significant increase). Memory u
Ralf Gerlich wrote:
This looks quite detailed. I'm not that familiar with the London area so
would you say that there is a considerable amount of smaller streets
missing in there?
You can see the source data here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/ there
are roads missing, simply because the map
On Saturday 10 September 2005 10:25, Jon Stockill wrote:
> Here's a couple of pics, the first is looking west over the gherkin, and
> the second is looking out over regents park. Generation time was over an
> hour for that tile on a 1GHz athlon (the resource limits in
> fgfs-construct needed a sig
Dave Martin writes:
>
> I have a feeling as we get more road data, we're going to be seeing slight
> placement errors at the airports. Currently EGBB is placed over the A45 on
> the 0.9.8 scenery. If I can get that road mapped by GPS and a few others
> around it, we can probably move the airp
On Saturday 10 September 2005 13:19, Dave Martin wrote:
> I have a feeling as we get more road data, we're going to be seeing slight
> placement errors at the airports. Currently EGBB is placed over the A45 on
> the 0.9.8 scenery. If I can get that road mapped by GPS and a few others
> around it, w
Paul Surgeon wrote:
I noticed that a lot of airports in the X-Plane DB are quite far out.
Even some major airports like Sion were out by ~ 3 km.
What I do find interesting is that the quality of the data seems to change for
every country.
South Eastern France's data was horrid, so was Switzerl
On Saturday 10 September 2005 15:28, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
> My understanding is that for the USA, the X-Plane data for runways comes
> primarily from DAFIF. Taxiways are all hand drawn and placed. Outside
> the USA the runway data is manually generated by anyone who wants to
> submit new airpor
On September 10, 2005 09:28 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
> My understanding is that for the USA, the X-Plane data for runways comes
> primarily from DAFIF. Taxiways are all hand drawn and placed. Outside
> the USA the runway data is manually generated by anyone who wants to
> submit new airports, s
Hi,
Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb:
Google has some pretty accurate taxiways for their map. Check out
http://pigeond.net/flightgear/fg_server_map.html in map mode.
Does anybody where Google got their data from?
You can get quite detailed aerial photos for most urban areas in the USA
from http:
On Saturday 10 September 2005 19:03, Ralf Gerlich wrote:
> However, I'm still searching for free detailed aerial photos for other
> areas of the world such as Germany. Here the government wants you to pay
> twice for the photos: Once via tax and once when you want to use the
> photos. The license u
On September 10, 2005 06:36 am, Jon Stockill wrote:
> We've just been discussing another problem on irc - the green texture
> isn't really appropriate for a city, but I left out the city areas since
> the texture it uses contains its own roads. I'm not really sure of a
> solution to this.
Personall
On September 10, 2005 01:03 pm, Ralf Gerlich wrote:
> You can get quite detailed aerial photos for most urban areas in the USA
> from http://www.terraserver-usa.com
>
> David Luff's TaxiDraw has support for automatically loading such photos
> and showing them in the editor.
>
> However, I'm still s
Hi,
Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb:
I think you misunderstood. I was referring to the taxiways under map mode,
not satellite mode. If you go in map mode, you will see that Google got some
pretty accurate vector data for taxiways generation.
Whoop, didn't see that. In that case: Yes, I misunder
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Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb:
> On September 10, 2005 09:28 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
>
>>My understanding is that for the USA, the X-Plane data for runways comes
>>primarily from DAFIF. Taxiways are all hand drawn and placed. Outside
>>the USA the
Ralf Gerlich wrote:
Hi,
Ampere K. Hardraade schrieb:
I think you misunderstood. I was referring to the taxiways under map
mode, not satellite mode. If you go in map mode, you will see that
Google got some pretty accurate vector data for taxiways generation.
Whoop, didn't see that. In tha
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