Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery generation

2007-02-26 Thread Durk Talsma
Martin Spott wrote: > Hi Durk, > > Durk Talsma wrote: > > >> Is there already a date known for LinuxTag 2007? Last year, I wasn't >> able to make it due to ongoing travel plans. >> > > http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/home/aktuelles.html > > Expect us to have a _really_ nice booth this ye

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery generation

2007-02-26 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Durk, Durk Talsma wrote: > Is there already a date known for LinuxTag 2007? Last year, I wasn't > able to make it due to ongoing travel plans. http://www.linuxtag.org/2007/en/home/aktuelles.html Expect us to have a _really_ nice booth this year - lots of displays and only few computers ;

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery generation

2007-02-26 Thread Durk Talsma
Ralf Gerlich wrote: > We have a timeline for many of our endeavours, and it ends at end of May > 2007, as we want to have it ready for LinuxTag in Berlin. > > Is there already a date known for LinuxTag 2007? Last year, I wasn't able to make it due to ongoing travel plans. The end of May seems l

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery generation

2007-02-26 Thread Martin Spott
Just a bit self-advertising, targetting those who live in or near Germany and have certain knowledge of the German language Ralf Gerlich wrote: > As far as my interpretation of the communication goes, OSGeo will > support this effort as well due to the common interest in freely > available g

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery generation

2007-02-24 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hello! Martin Spott wrote: > Actually, after Ralf already added _significant_ improvement to the > TerraGear tools, I plan to set up some automatic batch-processing for > the FlightGear Scenery - although currently I'm not sure how long it > will take to 'aquire' the necessary recources ;-) To c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery generation

2007-02-24 Thread Martin Spott
Ralf Gerlich wrote: > As far as my interpretation of the communication goes, OSGeo will > support this effort as well due to the common interest in freely > available geodata. We are already provided with computing power and > storage space. , and not to forget: Bandwidth :-) Well, OSGeo/Te

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery generation

2007-02-23 Thread
Thanks Martin and Ralph , I didn't realize such an ambitious project was underway (and actually being worked on). I was thinking more along the lines of putting rivers and roads back in place. Im looking forward to seeing the results , Ive been working on CYVR again , but wish the surrounding t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery generation

2007-02-23 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi Syd, I agree with you that the state of affairs regarding scenery is currently awkward, to say the least. As Martin has said, we are working on improving this. Martin's and my work are currently concentrated on making more and different datasources accessible for scenery creation. Martin is do

[Flightgear-devel] Custom Scenery generation; Was: temporary OSG loading speed fix ...

2007-02-23 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Syd, syd&sandy wrote: > I imagine the scenery file format was designed for loading speed , but > considering the difficulty everyone has with editing scenery ,would it > be feasible to import the binary file (say into Blender), and work > directly on the vertices ? This is probably my bigg