Re: RFC: Taxiway/Apron heuristics

On 4/5/04 at 4:27 PM Erik Hofman wrote:

>
>The parts of the Peel database that come from DAFIF(T) take precedence 
>over any other data,

But the DAFIF(T) is sometimes wrong - the last Peel update that Curt used
actually changed correct (presumably user) data to incorrect DAFIF data in
some instances.  (The position of one of Nottingham's runways is wrong in
the DAFIF).

I would be happy to maintain a file of user contributed airports on the
TaxiDraw webpage in the short term.  These would then be available for
download by anyone building their own scenery, and Curt could grab the file
when regenerating and build these airports *after* building the Peel
dataset.  With suitable TerraGear support it could be used as a testbed for
new flags such as Taxiway|Apron, and differing rwy markings at each end.

In the longer term we could think about merging and maintaining a full
dataset if our own maintanence of a partial dataset proved sucessfull.

This would only work if Curt was happy to pull down the extra airports file
at each Scenery generation.

Cheers - Dave