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

[Michael <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

Btw, it seems that for PHOG and such, the launcher is drawing asphalt
polygons, rather than the groundnet, so it might be something else.
Why does it not do that for anywhere else is strange of course.