Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter August 2009

2009-08-09 Thread Jon Stockill
Maxime Guillaud wrote: > ok. Meanwhile, my understanding is that I can distribute my OSM-based > scenery under the Attribution-Share Alike Creative Commons license > without problems. Correct ? If it's data you submitted to OSM yourself then you can use any license you like, since you still re

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter August 2009

2009-08-09 Thread Jacob Burbach
> I'm pretty much convinced that your goal and ours are not that far > apart from each other. In other words: "pushing things to a new level" > doesn't make your project a unique one. Indeed, I think everyone working on scenery shares some common goals. There is currently nothing unique about my w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter August 2009

2009-08-09 Thread Maxime Guillaud
Martin Spott wrote: > I'm well familiar with reading French - thanks for the pointer ! > Apparently these use terms are quite different from those on the EEA > site. This really looks like we should incorporate French CORINE data > into our collection of land cover data for the World Scenery. I'll

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter August 2009

2009-08-09 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > BUT we're taking different routes to get there - obviously. "We", > sometimes also known as The Custom Scenery Project, are researching how > to automate as many of the involved refinement steps as possible while > still allowing for manual editing, in order to let the entire

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter August 2009

2009-08-09 Thread Martin Spott
Jacob Burbach wrote: >> Next time you do that you'd probably consider acknowledging the >> respective attributes in the OSM data: They're explicitly marking these >> sections of the railroad as running through a tunnel  ;-) > > Interesting, seems I may have totally overlooked that one, I'll look >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter August 2009

2009-08-09 Thread Jacob Burbach
> Next time you do that you'd probably consider acknowledging the > respective attributes in the OSM data: They're explicitly marking these > sections of the railroad as running through a tunnel  ;-) Interesting, seems I may have totally overlooked that one, I'll look into it. I can prob have thos

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter August 2009

2009-08-09 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Jacob, Jacob Burbach wrote: > [...] The other thing I'm spending a fair amount of time on is > the identifying tunnels for roads and rails, so they do not cut > through mountains and such. A fair number of people have commented on > my scenery about "that strange peak near LOWI" being fixed. T

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter August 2009

2009-08-09 Thread Martin Spott
Salut Maxime, Maxime Guillaud wrote: > Thanks for those explanations, Martin. However, let me point out that > the license for the CORINE data for France seems pretty flexible to me. > (Note that this is true for France only, and that each country > distributes their data with their own licens

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter August 2009

2009-08-09 Thread Jacob Burbach
While it would be neat if flightgear could generate the default scenery off of high quality data, there is still a fair bit of manual work involved to get good results. OSM and Corine, while both very accurate, don't necessarily agree with one another. I've spent a considerable amount of time tweak

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter August 2009

2009-08-09 Thread Maxime Guillaud
Martin Spott wrote: > People have probably started wondering why those who claim to be busy > building and distributing World Scenery for FlightGear didn't jump on > the same track, using CORINE and OSM data as input for the World > Scenery, like Jake did with 'his' Innsbruck Scenery (as well as a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter August 2009

2009-08-09 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman wrote: > Stuart Buchanan wrote: >> http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/FlightGear_Newsletter_August_2009 > > Looking at the custom made scenery screenshots I must say that hand > altered scenery might look close to, if not as good as, photo realistic > scenery. People have probabl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter August 2009

2009-08-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Hi All, > > I have the pleasure to announce that the latest edition of the FlightGear > Newsletter is now available: > > http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/FlightGear_Newsletter_August_2009 Looking at the custom made scenery screenshots I must say that hand altered

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter August 2009

2009-08-06 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi All, I have the pleasure to announce that the latest edition of the FlightGear Newsletter is now available: http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/FlightGear_Newsletter_August_2009 As always, new submissions are welcome, and can be added to the next edition. -Stuart ---