Re: [Celestia-developers] Re: Small locations files
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From: Chris L. <cl...@ww...> - 2003-12-09 20:14:32
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Grant Hutchison wrote: > Chris: > > Let's just go with your Eurasia/Africa/North America/South > > America/Antarctica proposal. If a lot of people complain about the > > omission about Australia, we can add it next time around--we'll let the > > deciding test for continenthood be a purely pragmatic one: fewest number > > of email complaints. > Of course if we go for Eurasia, we're no longer listing the conventional > continents, so there's actually no problem with adding Australia, now I > think about it - we just have a list of named large land masses, some of > which are continents and some of which aren't. The labelling's easier using > Australia rather than Australasia, the Aussies are happy, and we've shaken > ourselves loose from any worries about "correct" usage in a continent list. > (Sorry, I seem to have revolved in a circle on this, but that's negotated > solutions for you ...) I'll prepare a revised file without Europe and Asia, > but with Eurasia and Australia and e-mail it to you (or I can commit it > myself if you let me know where to put it). Put it in the data directory with a file name of your choosing. Then modify the SolarSystemCatalogs line in celestia.cfg to include the file. > But before that, what do you feel about Fridger's remarks? There's certainly > a case for omitting this sort of "gross" Earth labelling entirely, as being > entirely uninformative - it's really only there for internal consistency. > But I think Fridger's capital list (though rather splendid) would only be a > suitable substitute if we can get some sort of Importance grading scheme > going to eliminate the overlapping clutter in the Caribbean and elsewhere. I > think a simple weighting by population could do the trick, and Fridger > already has those data to hand for most capitals, I understand. It seems worthwhile to include both, with the capitals in a separate file. And yes, I think that a population-derived importance is critical for a locations file that is to be included in the base distribution. --Chris |