Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tides in FlightGear?

[Arnt K. <ar...@c2...>]

On Fri, 26 May 2006 20:16:14 +0000 (UTC), Martin wrote in message 
<e57nme$134e$1...@os...>:

> "Martin Doege" wrote:
> 
> > If the low tide pattern is already marked in the land cover database
> > as such, [...]
> 
> No, we currently don't have the low tide marks stored in the DB but
> I'm sure that we could retrieve it somewhere. For almost every area
> that features such a significant tidal phenomenon there's always some
> website which carries some photos or charts that we're allowed to use
> for digitizing.
> This task won't be done done in five minutes, some 'real' work is
> required, but it should not be _that_ difficult because we don't have
> to invent something totally new.

..you're thinking xtide and nautical maps?  Only the latter would be
needed for the tidal scenery builds, and xtide could be drawn into
non-posix code builds like brlcad(.org) adds jove to have an 
emacs-like command editor.

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