FlightGear World Scenery for v0.9.5

In addition to the new v0.9.5 release of FlightGear there is a complete 
rebuild of the world scenery also available.  Here is a list of a few 
features:

- The terrain skin is based on SRTM 90m terrain for all of North and 
South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

- Australia SRTM 90m data was not available in time for this release 
(but will be included in the next world rebuild.)

- Long feature edges have been subdivided to reduce strange artifacts in 
the final polygon mesh and to allow things like roads and land cover 
edges to better follow the underlying terrain.

- A much smarter terrain simplification/approximation algorithm is now 
used.  This allows us to do a better fit of the original data with fewer 
polygons and fewer strange artifacts.

- Most airport runway surfaces that were problematic in previous 
releases have been fixed.

- Problems with matching airport surface elevations with the surrounding 
terrain have been fixed.

- Most airports now include wind socks, rotating beacons, and control 
towers.

- Total size of the entire world scenery is about 12 Gb and just fits in 
19 CDROM's or 3 DVD's.  I am able to burn DVD's now so please visit 
http://cdrom.flightgear.org if you are interested in receiving FG 
scenery on DVD.

Thanks,

Curt.

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Curtis Olson        http://www.flightgear.org/~curt 
HumanFIRST Program  http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
FlightGear Project  http://www.flightgear.org
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