Re: [Flightgear-devel] Volcano - scenery model or AI scenario?

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Am 15.09.2017 um 17:02 schrieb Thorsten Renk:
> 
>> Well, since you're planning on doing this manually, volcano by 
>> volcano, you could compile an activity  list from here, and use
>> the time/date feature:
>> 
>> http://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=372020
>> 
>> thus avoiding the random activity model.
>> 
>> Alternatively, the weekly active volcanoes could maybe be scraped 
>> from that same site?
> 
> 
> 
> It's a really good idea, it's just not how my (very personal) view
> on simulating the world is. I prefer to see the environment as a
> world simulation engine that you can configure to your needs, not as
> a re-creation machine of real events.
> 
> For the same reason, I much prefer the offline weather engine over 
> METAR fetching, running an Aurora computation model over fetching 
> space weather or manually setting snowline over attempting to set it 
> from METAR.
> 
> If anyone wants to go the extra mile with this, I can make the hooks 
> in the design for it.
> 
> * Thorsten

If I may chip in my 2 pennies:

I very much respect your decision, to make it an offline simulation, though I think it's worth it, to at least make it possible, to fetch some vulcano status online and set FG to simulate just that.

I followed the discussion with excitement from the very beginning. Seeing your Hawaii screeny on the forum and soon after this topic, I thought that this would be an awesome addition to the FG world. And that's the point I'm trying to make. We're already dealing with the world as it is today and right now, and we fetch it online. At least most of us do. Why not make this vulcano engine react to the real thing as well?

I think it's a good idea, to provide an AI-scenario for the impatient ones (make this certain vulcano go off right now), still I think it's nice to fill the gap between geological and meteological real-time data (real-time weather plus real-time vulcano-activity).
If Helsinki Airport reports overcast skies full of ashes because some vulcano in iceland went off in the real world, I'd love to find FG simulating just that! And if I decided to go to iceland to see this real-time action, then I'd love to see just that!
Since aviation is the first branche to be affected by this kind of thing, like happened when this vulcano in Iceland went crazy... A lot of flights had to be re-routed back then!

I hope to get my point across... (it's late and I'm way over-tired)

So, if you feel, like you're not interested in coding all this real-time stuff, then it would be really nice to at least build this vulcano thing to make it easy to add the real-time stuff by someone else. :o)

Cheers and good night!
chris


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