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Re: Looking at a nice project from outside. Re: Re : Re : Scenery web and scene models. starting over with a fresh landcover database, including a BOINC-based approach (see also elgaton's ongoing status updates in the archives )- as well as creating surrounding infrastructure/tools like TerraFS. įlightGear core developer Torsten has since begun exploring alternatives, i.e. In addition, several contributors have discussed providing osgEarth-based scenery at least as a temporary workaround while the disturbances caused by the mapserver's disappearance are sorted out. Various more or less complete attempts at re-creating this infrastructure have been discussed/attempted meanwhile

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The data now missing represents man-months of research and tests in GIS land, building and testing tools, building and maintaining the database, shaping all the data into its current form and loading it into the DB, researching and testing how to build detailed airport layouts with TerraGear, the same with OSM roads, ensuring a certain quality level for the land cover data as well as for the Scenemodels repository is no longer operational, and the underlying data are unavailable ) īefore Martin Spott started the ' Landcover-DB'-project we were having an ongoing dispute about wether the underlying land cover data or some 'tweaking the data'-techniques in the TerraGear toolchain had been responsible for certain 'unexpected effects' in FlightGear's Scenery.įinally, to resolve this issue, Martin stuffed all our land cover data into a PostGIS database, put a MapServer as a frontend so everyone could have a look at what's been the actual input to our Scenery processingįor the time being, the service has been discontinued (i.e. The primary intention of the Scenemodels repository is and has ever been from it's initial start to have a common repository which is collaboratively filled with the best scenery models we have for the entire world and which are 'compatible' with the GPL.

First announced in April 2006, the Landcover DB (database) was a web service/server that used to provide GIS data (mainly shapefiles and elevation data) via a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database behind the MapServer and Scenemodels websites for use by FlightGear-related tools like TerraGear and TerraGear GUI to help provide data for creating scenery tiles for FlightGear.

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