Re: Airports

Jon Stockill writes:

> I've been thinking about the problems we were discussing with airport
> generation, hole polys, and multiple runs of genapts, and have come up
> with this solution:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
<snip>
>
> exit 0;
> 
> Feed it the path to a directory full of taxiway files (as produced by
> taxidraw), followed optionally by the path to the airports file (if it's
> not on the predefined path) and it will spit out a runways.dat file with
> all the updated airfields replacing the original unmodified ones.
> 
> Could the solution to our airfield management problem be as simple as
> storing twy files in cvs, then updating a local copy, and running this
> script followed by genapts?

Hi Jon,

FWIW, I've been in correspondance with Robin Peel, and I'm now modifying TaxiDraw to be able to import and export X-Plane format data.  This should hopefully make the appearance in the master data of layouts contributed from FG developers much quicker.  I'll modify the TaxiDraw pages to make clear that X-Plane format only should be submitted to Robin when done.

I'll be saving your script though - should come in handy!  I still think that TerraGear ought to be robust to multiple airport sources though, but it's not a big deal.

Cheers - Dave