Re: [Flightgear-devel] Waterfalls

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Wilkinson
It is a little old, but it never hurts to refresh the memory... :-) TanDEM-X is the data to look for in the near future. This mission when complete will have created a worldwide DEM that conforms to DTED level 3, providing a DEM with about a 12 metre point spacing, and vertical accuracy of bett

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Waterfalls

2010-11-23 Thread Curtis Olson
It's new news to me ... that's really cool! Looks like a much more complete data set than SRTM. Curt. On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Esa Koivuniemi wrote: > Hi guys/gals > > Talking about high res DEM, have you guys noticed there is new 30 m (= 1 > arc sec, I guess) world wide Aster DEM data

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Waterfalls

2010-11-23 Thread Esa Koivuniemi
Hi guys/gals Talking about high res DEM, have you guys noticed there is new 30 m (= 1 arc sec, I guess) world wide Aster DEM dataset available? http://geology.com/nasa/world-topographic-map/ If this is old news, please don't beat me up :) -esa- On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Martin Spott

[Flightgear-devel] FGFS

2010-11-23 Thread Donn Washburn
I hate to send out this error but it seems to be a Nasal problem. I am running openSuSE 11.4 M3 and it could be another openSuSE problem or something I did not get compiled correctly. This is a Nvidia system with NV.run installed on a xorg system running KDE 4.5 NoaaMetarRwalWxController::update

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Waterfalls

2010-11-23 Thread Martin Spott
Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > - "Martin Spott" a écrit : > >> "J. Holden" wrote: > > >> > There is no land cover layer for waterfalls. > >> > >> which doesn't mean that such thing can't be introduced ;-) > >> Typically this requires someone to create a suitable t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Waterfalls

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Wilkinson
...and high res DEM data to build the terrain with - I've tried to fly up the valley that Purlingbrook fall (lovely 109m cascade that you can walk behind) in the Gold Coast hinterland falls into - I have to rely on knowing the lat / lon of the fall and valley to know I'm in it, relying on VFR wo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Waterfalls

2010-11-23 Thread Frederic Bouvier
- "Martin Spott" a écrit : > "J. Holden" wrote: > > > There is no land cover layer for waterfalls. > > which doesn't mean that such thing can't be introduced ;-) > Typically this requires someone to create a suitable texture, the > rest is just admin stuff. and a particle system ;-)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Waterfalls

2010-11-23 Thread Martin Spott
"J. Holden" wrote: > There is no land cover layer for waterfalls. which doesn't mean that such thing can't be introduced ;-) Typically this requires someone to create a suitable texture, the rest is just admin stuff. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selecti