Re: [Flightgear-devel] airportinfo() doesn't seem to work

[Michael D. <mik...@gm...>]

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 09:05:03AM +0100, James Turner wrote:
> Sorry, I was getting mixed up: parking and ground-net data comes from
> ground-network.xml, used by AI for taxi-paths. ‘Visible’ taxiways / aprons
> comes from apt.dat as you point out, and only exists from some subset of
> airports. We have a long-standing issue to get the taxiway data out of apt.dat
> (since it bloats it) and into the ground-net files, since that would also make
> editing easier.
> 
> But, the flip side then is airport BTG generation needs the ground-net files,
> which currently it does not.
> 
> This is all my recollection anyway - does that with the observed behaviour and
> other people’s understanding? Corrections are welcome, as are bug-fixes :)
> 
> Kind regards,
> James

But apt.dat groundnet is compatible with X-Plane -- does FG really
have the manpower to maintain so much data in own, custom format?

How is it uneditable? WED has a good visual editing for AI network.