Re: [Flightgear-devel] New experimental mapserver

[Viktor R. <vik...@gm...>]

Hi all,

If you are looking for airports with extreme runway slope for testing, 
may I suggest Lukla, Nepal (VNLK). If that one comes out looking right, 
I'd say you've got the code sorted :)

Cheers,
Vik


On 09/10/2011 02:47 PM, Christian Schmitt wrote:
> Curtis Olson wrote:
>
>> I won't say this is perfect in all areas ... some areas have stray data
>> points or noise in the terrain data that confuses things.  There's always
>> a chance of a mismatch between airport location terrain location so that
>> we
>> are trying to put the airport on not quite the right underlying terrain.
>> My thoughts for future extensions of this code would be to allow for
>> creating specific tuning parameters for airports that didn't behave well
>> with the default parameters.
>
> An nice example where a high slope leads to bad results would be LFLJ,
> however, it is possible in such cases to use the --max-slope option in
> genapts.
>
> Chris
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