Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery

2005-03-01 Thread Martin Spott
Frederic Bouvier wrote: > Quoting Martin Spott : >> If I may quote Frederic Bouvier (regarding FGSD): >> >> "It shouldn't be too difficult. Just a matter of wrapping up the >> FGSD_TriangleObject class into a main function." >> >> >> but nobody did that. > > Work in (slow) progress. Hehe, I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery populating?

2005-03-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 19:34:20 +0100 (MET), Roberto wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I also noticed that those POI files are generally distributed free > > > with very relaxed licenses. > > > > But this is the crux of the biscuit. What, specifically, is the > > license? "Very relaxed"

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery populating?

2005-03-01 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
Hello Chris, > > Did anyone walked this way before? > > Not with TomTom POI files that I'm aware of. There is a *lot* of ongoing > work on getting more ground structures into the FG scenery, however. Jon > Stockill and Martin Spott have built a master database for ground scenery > object locat

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery

2005-03-01 Thread cmetzler
Martin Spott wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Both Jon and I have written code to do this iteratively for a list of >> lat/lon locations (I think Jon used Perl; I used Python). Sadly, it >> requires running FlightGear and is slow; but at least it's hands-off. > > If I may quote Frederic B

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery

2005-03-01 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Quoting Martin Spott : > If I may quote Frederic Bouvier (regarding FGSD): > > "It shouldn't be too difficult. Just a matter of wrapping up the > FGSD_TriangleObject class into a main function." > > > but nobody did that. Work in (slow) progress. -Fred _

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery

2005-03-01 Thread Martin Spott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There is a *lot* of ongoing work on getting more ground structures > into the FG scenery, however. Jon Stockill and Martin Spott have built > a master database for ground scenery object locations and shared models > to represent them. [...] I don't know that an "officia

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery populating?

2005-03-01 Thread cmetzler
> I've accidentally come into those POI (Point Of Interest) files for TomTom > GPS systems which carry a very big amount of informations regarding many > things laying around the world (restaurants, fuel stations, railroad > stations, cinemas, schools, hotels ...). > Those files are easily conve

[Flightgear-devel] Anyone using TomTom POI files for scenery populating?

2005-03-01 Thread Roberto Inzerillo
Hi all, I've accidentally come into those POI (Point Of Interest) files for TomTom GPS systems which carry a very big amount of informations regarding many things laying around the world (restaurants, fuel stations, railroad stations, cinemas, schools, hotels ...). Those files are easily convertib