Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-06-23 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the > underlying database. Visit: > > http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ > > enter the ICAO identifier of your favourite airfield and explore > our landcover data. As a by-product I added a function to calc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-24 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > Currently I don't know why the scalebars behave that strange, I'll look > at this another day. This is fixed now: I realized that you just should set the UNITS in the MAP header according to the units of the data you feed to the Mapserver :-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > Got it, ICAO identifiery are being displayed, handling of outline > colours is being worked on, O.k., I consider this small step as finished. This was a nice task for refreshing my rusty Perl skills, starting to learn PHP and interfacing both with a PostGIS-DB, always trying

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > Paul Surgeon wrote: >> On Sunday 23 April 2006 00:17, Martin Spott wrote: >>> Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the >>> underlying database. Visit: >>> >>> http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ [...] > Thanks ! I feel a major drwback is that the airpor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday 23 April 2006 14:36, Martin Spott wrote: > The screenshot looks promising, but I guess it does not show these > yellow circles. When assigning '100 120 255' I get some blueish dots. > BTW, how does your definition of the "cities-symbol" look ? SYMBOL NAME "cities-symbol" TYPE e

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Martin Spott
Paul Surgeon wrote: > On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:38, Martin Spott wrote: >> Thanks ! I feel a major drwback is that the airports don't have their >> ICAO codes attached to the circles. This appears to be part of the >> group of features that need special handling > Ok, I'm assuming you're pu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Martin Spott
Christian Mayer wrote: > What I've seen is that there are only two road types. I think this could > be limiting in the future. (As line data can dramatically increase the > triangle count it might be necessary to switch off the smallest visible > roads.) Yep, this a tribute we're currently paying

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday 23 April 2006 12:38, Martin Spott wrote: > Paul Surgeon wrote: > > On Sunday 23 April 2006 00:17, Martin Spott wrote: > >> Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the > >> underlying database. Visit: > >> > >> http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ > > > > Looks excellen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Martin Spott
Paul Surgeon wrote: > On Sunday 23 April 2006 00:17, Martin Spott wrote: >> Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the >> underlying database. Visit: >> >> http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ > > Looks excellent Martin! Thanks ! I feel a major drwback is that the airports do

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Spott schrieb: > Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the > underlying database. Visit: > > http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ I just had a quick look at Munich (EDDM). Activating all layers it looks like that the most

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday 23 April 2006 01:31, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Quick question. How hard (or would it be possible) to create a version > of this tool that would run locally and use a local copy of the > TerraGear "work" directory instead of the raw vmap0 or shapefile ... > something that a person could us

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-23 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday 23 April 2006 00:17, Martin Spott wrote: > Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the > underlying database. Visit: > > http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ Looks excellent Martin! It certainly shows us how coarse the VMAP0 data is. The scalebar seems to be broken t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-22 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Curt, "Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: >>Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the >>underlying database. Visit: >> >> http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ [...] > Quick question. How hard (or would it be possible) to create a version > of this tool that wo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-22 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott wrote: Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the underlying database. Visit: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ enter the ICAO identifier of your favourite airfield and explore our landcover data. I _am_ aware of two drawbacks: 1.) There is a rounding

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-22 Thread Martin Spott
"dene maxwell" wrote: > a couple of other observations > > The ICAO selector doesn't like lower-case Aaah, didn't think of that because I always use upper case for ICAO codes. > The land-cover seems to be offset to the coast line (in the case of NZWN to > the south) This is part of a well-kno

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-22 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the > underlying database. Visit: > > http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ [...] > 2.) the exact location of the airfield is not being displayed in the > map. O.k., Airport locations are available now - located

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-22 Thread dene maxwell
t even the significant landmarks in the right place. :-} Thanks again Martin for your efforts Regards Dene From: Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver

[Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-04-22 Thread Martin Spott
Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the underlying database. Visit: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ enter the ICAO identifier of your favourite airfield and explore our landcover data. I _am_ aware of two drawbacks: 1.) There is a rounding error that leaves the