On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:48 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 May 2011 15:38, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> That's before you consider the resolution, it's so high that railway
>>> lines and switching tracks are mapped so accurately people were
>>> suggesting to those that make train games they could use OSM data as
>>> the basis of their track data for more realistic simulations.
>>
>> Yeah, I've wondered for a while if people couldn't make interesting
>> RTS type games using OSM data. Would be pretty cool to do a
>> military/economic simulation on an area that you know...
>
> I think at least 1 flight sim already uses OSM data.

XPlane has the X-VFR project: http://xvfr.beomuex.org/

Will place (open licenced) 3d models on POIs like Radio towers,
Churches, Cranes, Gasometers, Water towers, Windmills, Fossil power
plants, Coal power plants, Nuclear plants, Wind turbines, Industrial
factories.

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