Re: [Flightgear-devel] Global data positional lookup

[Mathias <Mat...@gm...>]

On Sunday 19 February 2006 19:44, Christian Mayer wrote:
> As my last post to this topic was probably a bit cryptic for some I've
> looked in the net a bit and have found:
Hehe, not really cryptic.
Rather interresting!

>   http://taltos.pha.jhu.edu/htm/
>
> Probably we can use their software directly - or use their algorithm to
> partition the earth in such a way that we can cheaply query points (like
> navaids, METAR stations, ...) on the earth.
Ok, a 'triangular quadtree' :)
Should not be too hard to implement.
I have some time during the next days ...

Your note was that well done that it appeared that you will come up with an=
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apprioriate solution in a few minutes ...
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At least it made me believe that you already have something more or less re=
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to share ...

    Greetings

           Mathias

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Mathias Fr=F6hlich, email: Mat...@gm...