Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scanned sectional charts online

2003-11-12 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 1:22 am, David Megginson wrote: There are raw, scanned sectionals and terminal charts available online. I haven't downloaded and unpacked the zipfiles yet, so I'm not sure of the format. Sectionals, at 1:500,000 scale, are the most commonly-used charts for VFR

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Scanned sectional charts online

2003-11-12 Thread Richard Bytheway
Try using the ignore dependencies flag on RPM to override the dependency checking. Ugly, but it might work. Alternatively, start from source and built it yourself. Richard you wrote Frustratingly, I can't get the geotiff packages to install. I have installed libproj0-4.4.5-2mdk.i586.rpm,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scanned sectional charts online

2003-11-12 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 12:10 pm, Jonathan Richards wrote: Frustratingly, I can't get the geotiff packages to install. snip Anyone know how to unstick this? geotiff gives us a tool to read the tags in the TIFF files. Sorry to follow up my own post. I gave up on the rpm packages and tried

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scanned sectional charts online

2003-11-12 Thread Ivo
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 13:10, Jonathan Richards wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rpms]# rpm -ivh geotiff-1.1.4-6mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libgeotiff.so is needed by geotiff-1.1.4-6mdk I don't really understand why this is a problem, because the libraries seem to be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scanned sectional charts online

2003-11-12 Thread David Megginson
Jonathan Richards writes: listgeo gives a whole shedload of information about the mapping, too much to report here unless anyone's interested, in which case mail me. I'd just like to take another opportunity to express my appreciation to the U.S. government for making so much geodata

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scanned sectional charts online

2003-11-12 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Wednesday, 12 November 2003 16:36, David Megginson wrote: Those of us who are not Americans need to press our own governments to follow suit. Bwaahahaha! Over here that would be like the ant asking an elephant to not step on him. Even our constitution get's changed without any consultation

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Scanned sectional charts online

2003-11-12 Thread Norman Vine
David Megginson writes: Jonathan Richards writes: listgeo gives a whole shedload of information about the mapping, too much to report here unless anyone's interested, in which case mail me. I'd just like to take another opportunity to express my appreciation to the U.S.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scanned sectional charts online

2003-11-12 Thread David Megginson
Paul Surgeon writes: The USGS is unfortunately a rare example of good governance. Where I live the tax payers pay to get the government to do surveys and then the government sells us the data. :( Ditto for Canada. Fortunately, the U.S. is making more and more data free for our countries

[Flightgear-devel] Scanned sectional charts online

2003-11-11 Thread David Megginson
There are raw, scanned sectionals and terminal charts available online. I haven't downloaded and unpacked the zipfiles yet, so I'm not sure of the format. Sectionals, at 1:500,000 scale, are the most commonly-used charts for VFR flying -- in Canada, we have the same thing, but call them VNC's