Re: [Flightgear-devel] New scenery textures

[Martin S. <Mar...@mg...>]

John Wojnaroski wrote:

> some of the problem might be the way the map data is encoded, but seems 
> that the older textures from a few revisions back seemed to work better 
> producing brownish and reddish desert-like colors.  Something has to be 
> amiss.... can't imagine the USGS being that far off in encoding land use 
> data or whoever is responsible for defining such attributes.

This is actually the data that has been used for the past Scenery
releases, I don't think the textures are at fault. Try visiting this
page:

  http://mapserver.flightgear.org/

.... in the "imgext" portion of the URL enter the lower left and the
upper right corner of the box you are interested in (+/- a half degree
is a good choice) and select the layers you want to see. This will tell
you what the dataset actually provides for the respective region. In
fact we currently don't have a definition for salt lakes - there are
several more detailed landcover types in VMAP0 that we don't use, but
no salt lakes.

Cheers,
	Martin.
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