Re: [Flightgear-devel] Making containers fly: FlightGear scenery goes docker

[Torsten D. <to...@t3...>]

Here comes an update regarding the latest progress.

I was able to create a small chunk of scenery with my Docker image.
For some reason, it turned out be be Hawaii ;-)

After some facepalm moments and a couple of retries, here is the result:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qu5ysxbv7j1mkmy/PHNL-draft.jpg?dl=1

Created from SRTM-1 elevation data, NLCD landcover pulled straight from
Martins landcover database and airports layout from todays X-Plane gateway.
Martin kindly granted direct read access to his database so I can run
ogr-decode with the Postgres datasource pulling in the raw data instead of
using exported shapefiles
(speeds up things a lot and saves many GB of disk space)

It still needs some more tweaking (most notable, there are no OSM roads
yet) and I expect some suprises when processing large scale data.
Anyway - this is a major step forward in becoming able to create regular
scenery updates automatically. Definitely not for 2018.1 - but with a good
chance later this year.

Oh - did I mention Docker? This scenery has been created on a machine
knowing _nothing_ about FlightGear, no simgear, no terragear, not even a
C++ compiler.
Just a plain Linux box with docker installed and our terragear image
started as a container.

A _huge_ THANK YOU to Martin for preparing this excellent data set and
making it available!

Aloha.

Torsten


James Turner <jam...@kd...> schrieb am Di., 30. Jan. 2018 um
12:13 Uhr:

> Stuart Buchanan wrote:
>
> That is quite amazing, and could massively reduce the effort required to
> work on scenery.
>
>
> > I hope to be able to compile the a first chunk of scenery within the next> couple of weeks.
>
>
> Fantastic.
>
>
> Indeed, that is excellent work - thanks Torsten.
>
> Kind regards,
> James
>
>
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