[Flightgear-devel] Re: Re: Re: FlightGear Make Process: Amazing

[Pigeon <pi...@pi...>]

> >   Perhaps I should make the menu visible by default ;)
> 
> I found it without having it start visible ... it's a tradeoff in screen 
> space usage I guess.

    Not until now I just figured, most of the time when you get to the
map, you want either see who's online, or make yourself always center
anyway. I've just committed the change :)


> Well, let me know if you have any questions.  This would be an awsome 
> feature to add navaids, airports, and airways.  We have all the data you 
> need in the FlightGear base package.  You could even draw taxiways at 
> the appropriate zoom levels.  I've done something similar for a past 
> commercial project and it's not all that hard I don't think.  I don't 
> know the constraints of the google map api, but I'm happy to answer 
> questions about the FlightGear data and the format and the parsing thereof.

    Yes. For a start, I have put all the data from apt.dat into a
database (mysql), and I've got a script working to do some simple query
from it and response with XML (which can be used in the map).


    I'll need to sort of the drawing/marking of airports and runways,
etc. And yes I'll probably have a elements be visible only at a certain
zoom levels. I certainly don't want to display all airports on the map
when you are at the view of the entire world. ;)


    What I'm actually not sure is, what would make sense for a pilot.
Like, what would pilots lookup and want to find out on the map when they
want to fly from A to B. And what will be the "workflow" of planning a
flight on a map like this. Things like that.


Pigeon.