TaxiDraw: Difference between revisions

TaxiDraw needs to be able to find the default airport data file in order to load the default airport layout prior to modification. The default airport data was originally available in two formats, X-Plane and FlightGear, but only X-Plane format is used now. TaxiDraw currently understands both formats, but support for the old FlightGear format should be considered depreciated, and will eventually be dropped. You can either download the latest airport data from the [http://www.x-plane.org/home/robinp master database] maintained by Robin Peel, or use the airport data shipped with FlightGear in <tt>$FG_ROOT/data/airports</tt>. Wherever you source the data, it will need to be unzipped before TaxiDraw can use it. The latest file is available from Robin's web site: www.x-plane.org/home/robinp This comes as a zip file containing several data files. The one we want is apt.dat, which contains the airport data. Place the apt.dat file somewhere on your system, and remember where it is, since it is necessary to tell TaxiDraw where to find it.