Re: I have no default.apt.gz

David Luff wrote:

>On 2/11/04 at 10:27 AM Curtis L. Olson wrote:
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>>Glenn McCord wrote:
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>>>Sorry, but how do I do that?
>>>I'm running genapts from ~/data/airports with
>>>$ genapts --input=runways.dat.gz --work=../../work/ --min-lon=110 
>>>--max-lon=180 --min-lat=-50 --max-lat=10
>>>where work has the DEM-30 directory, if that is what you're meaning. I'm
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>>>following the FlightGear Scenery Tutorial.
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>>>Using the old default.apt.gz results in no airports at all. Although at 
>>>the wrong altitude, at least runways.dat.gz shows them.
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>>You'll probably want to browse the genapts source code and find the list
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>>directories it searches and make sure your terrain directory naming scheme
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>>Regards,
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>The scenery tutorial is unfortunately somewhat out of date, and DEM-30 is
>no longer in use.  The current directory naming convention recognised by
>genapts is:
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>    cout << "The following subdirectories of the work-dir will be searched
>for elevation files:\n\n";
>    cout << "SRTM-United_States-1\n";
>    cout << "SRTM-North_America-3\n";
>    cout << "SRTM-South_America-3\n";
>    cout << "SRTM-Eurasia-3\n";
>    cout << "DEM-USGS-3\n";
>    cout << "SRTM-30";
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>Just rename DEM-30 to SRTM-30 and you *might* be good to go - OTOH I'm not
>sure if the elev processing is dependent on the directory name or simply
>what it finds there, and whether DEM-30 and SRTM-30 processed data is
>different in format or not.
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>HTH,
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>Cheers - Dave
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YES! That was exactly it. I renamed the DEM-30 to SRTM-30 and now it's 
all sweet. Thank you so much. Now I just have to find out why my box is 
suddenly failing to find my joystick and I'll be away.

Thanks again,
Glenn

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