Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain errors report

2009-03-05 Thread Martin Spott
gerard robin wrote: On mardi 20 janvier 2009, Martin Spott wrote: gerard robin wrote: On mardi 20 janvier 2009, Martin Spott wrote: gerard robin wrote: I wonder how you managed to draw a conclusion even before the error has been identified properly, i only have eye, a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain errors report

2009-01-20 Thread gerard robin
On samedi 17 janvier 2009, Martin Spott wrote: Brian Schack wrote: There are several huge and very unnatural walls in the Himalayas, both running NS and EW. I'll give the line of latitude or longitude that the wall runs along, and the end coordinates of the walls: The underlying SRTM

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain errors report

2009-01-20 Thread Martin Spott
gerard robin wrote: So older data were right. I wonder how you managed to draw a conclusion even before the error has been identified properly, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain errors report

2009-01-20 Thread gerard robin
On mardi 20 janvier 2009, gerard robin wrote: On samedi 17 janvier 2009, Martin Spott wrote: Brian Schack wrote: There are several huge and very unnatural walls in the Himalayas, both running NS and EW. I'll give the line of latitude or longitude that the wall runs along, and the end

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain errors report

2009-01-20 Thread gerard robin
On mardi 20 janvier 2009, Martin Spott wrote: gerard robin wrote: So older data were right. I wonder how you managed to draw a conclusion even before the error has been identified properly, Martin. i only have eye, a computer, and archives -- GĂ©rard

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain errors report

2009-01-20 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Brian, Brian Schack wrote: data (and by the way, much of this is guesswork on my part - if I'm labouring under false assumptions, please let me know). Maneuvering to an area in question, I checked 'srtm_elevation' and got ... nothing at all. There is data there - checking 'v0_lake, for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain errors report

2009-01-20 Thread Martin Spott
gerard robin wrote: On mardi 20 janvier 2009, Martin Spott wrote: gerard robin wrote: I wonder how you managed to draw a conclusion even before the error has been identified properly, i only have eye, a computer, and archives So, did you create screenshots from the 1.0.1 Scenery as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain errors report

2009-01-20 Thread Martin Spott
Brian Schack wrote: Given that we have this weirdness in the Himalayas, my first inclination is to check the underlying data. Atlas and FlightGear both showed the same problem, so this indicates that the problem is not with Atlas or FlightGear, but with the data they use. FlightGear and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain errors report

2009-01-20 Thread gerard robin
On mardi 20 janvier 2009, Martin Spott wrote: gerard robin wrote: On mardi 20 janvier 2009, Martin Spott wrote: gerard robin wrote: I wonder how you managed to draw a conclusion even before the error has been identified properly, i only have eye, a computer, and archives So,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain errors report

2009-01-18 Thread Brian Schack
Martin == Martin Spott writes: Martin Brian Schack wrote: There are several huge and very unnatural walls in the Himalayas, both running NS and EW. I'll give the line of latitude or longitude that the wall runs along, and the end coordinates of the walls: Martin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain errors report

2009-01-16 Thread Martin Spott
Brian Schack wrote: There are several huge and very unnatural walls in the Himalayas, both running NS and EW. I'll give the line of latitude or longitude that the wall runs along, and the end coordinates of the walls: Thanks for reporting! Especially in these mountainous regions I feel a bit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrain errors report

2009-01-16 Thread Martin Spott
Brian Schack wrote: There are several huge and very unnatural walls in the Himalayas, both running NS and EW. I'll give the line of latitude or longitude that the wall runs along, and the end coordinates of the walls: The underlying SRTM elevation data is known to have many voids in the

[Flightgear-devel] Terrain errors report

2009-01-15 Thread Brian Schack
There are several huge and very unnatural walls in the Himalayas, both running NS and EW. I'll give the line of latitude or longitude that the wall runs along, and the end coordinates of the walls: (1) e86.250 (NS), from n27.875 to n28.000 The above wall is capped on the north by an east-west