World Scenery 1.0.1

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World Scenery v1.0.1 released on October 27, 2008


The World Scenery is made in preparation for the FlightGear 1.99.x release (released as FlightGear 1.9.0 in December 2008), but from a technical point is should also work with the previous v1.0 version of FlightGear.

In addition to the bugfix the release contains some very fine bits of custom scenery work, namely: 

   * 6 Caribbean islands plus Helgoland (John Holden, Christian Schmitt)
   * Revised ParisV2 scenario from http://helijah.free.fr/flightgear/scenery/ParisV2/ParisV2.htm (cleanup and import by Jon Stockill)
   * Taxiway signs at 6 airfields: KSFO, KBWI, KLVK, KRHV, TFFF, TJSJ
   * Major progress in crowding the Scenery with 3D models - by Alexis Bory, Gijs de Rooy, Alex Park, Christian Schmitt, Hugo Devon , Paolo Savini .... just to name a few of the many involved contributors;

Acknowledgements:

The scenery was built on a quad-processor machine in San Diego with access provided to us by John Graham of Telascience.

Jon Stockill and Martin Spott maintain the static scenery objects database at http://scenemodels.flightgear.org/ and provided the adjustments of the elevations in the objects DB.

Curt Olson provided us with valuable hints as a long-time scenery builder and TerraGear development.

Special thanks go to John Holden and Christian Schmitt, who by their work on manual digitizing of Landsat imagery in the Caribbeans and at Helgoland have helped us pushing the envelope of custom scenery in the official scenery release. We sincerely hope that by this newfound experience more people will go this way of improving the data in the landcover database.

Base data:

The scenery was generated with terragear-cs, the Custom Scenery version of TerraGear, available at http://mapserver.flightgear.org/git.

Except for the obvious cases listed above the following base data was used: 

   * landcover and line data: VMAP0, as available on http://mapserver.flightgear.org/
   * airport data (apt.dat): as included in FlightGear Release 1.0
   * elevation data: SRTM v2 3arcsec and 30arcsec data
   * static objects: current status of the FlightGear Static Scenery Database (http://scenemodels.flightgear.org/) as of 29th of October 2008

As apt.dat is distributed with the base package instead of the scenery itself we were unable to use up-to-date airport data. This scenery release is intended to serve as official scenery for the current FlightGear release and therefore its contents must be synchronized with the contents of the released base package.

References

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