Re: Terragear 0.9.5 will not compile

Erik Hofman wrote:
> Hamish wrote:
> >>I should also point out the scenery for the entire world is already 
> >>built and available for download from the flightgear web page. You
> >>are welcome to build your own scenery ... you may wish you use a
> >>different combination of data sources, or add/fix airports ... but you
> >>don't need to do this if you just want to fly around familiar country.
> > 
> > I take it this is built with the 30arcsec topo data and not the new
> > 1arcsec US and 3arcsec worldwide SRTM data? 
> 
> Eh, no. Why do you think that?

Perhaps because of this :
ftp://edcsgs9.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/srtm/Continent_def.gif

SRTM only span from lat S 60:00:00 to N 60:00:00 so it can be a bit tight
for Finland
 
> > Would building against the
> > 3arcsec data make the scenery downloads 100 times larger?
> 
> Nope, although the size is larger (probably around twice as much).

Yes, TerraGear use a decimation algorithm that keep the vertices butget,
so the size of the scenery is not proportional to the square of the resolution

-Fred


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