Re: RFC: Taxiway/Apron heuristics

Jon Stockill wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Erik Hofman wrote:
> 
> 
>>Jon, are you still interested in maintaining our own databases?
>>
>>The way it is now we could reduce the effort by maintaining changes to
>>the X-Plane database, so creating or own database would be:
>>
>>1. import the Peel database
>>2. override known entries with our own.
> 
> 
> I can write something to store the current database - the question then is
> how do we manage updates - if details of an airfield in the Peel database
> change, and we have a custom version of it too, then which do we go with,
> and should we modify anything?

The parts of the Peel database that come from DAFIF(T) take precedence 
over any other data, the information of our own database takes 
precedence over the Peel data otherwise.
> 
> I'm a little bit busy at the moment, and expo preparations are taking up
> most of my spare time. Things should be a bit less hectic in a month or
> so.


There is no rush, it can take a couple of months if needed.

Erik