Re: About Terrain Database(Didn't got answere in forum)

Mathias Fröhlich <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Jul 2013 15:36:58 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.games.flightgear.flightmodel
Message-ID <3893839.UJ22evr9NE@notebook>
Hi,

On Friday, July 12, 2013 00:12:47 pankaj thapliyal wrote:
> Hello
>          I have actual aircraft data ( latitude,longitude,altitude,pitch
> angle ,roll angle and yaw angle ) .These six parameters i am giving input
> to FlightGear and i am trying to fly the aircraft but it is hitting hills
> and going inside ground level.
> thats why i want to ask about terrain database.
> and what reference you are using to create terrain(eg. SRTM, NED etc ).

Flightgear uses WGS84 elliptical coordinates or the cartesian coordinates with 
this WGS84 ellipse together with srtm elevation.
Where the landcover stems from is more complex, but should not harm for your 
question.

Where do you feed your data? May be there is something in between?

Mathias

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