AI Traffic: Difference between revisions

With the basic infrastructure in place, the next step is to fine-tune the network. The first step in this process is to mark the network nodes that are located on a runway. This is important for a number of reasons: First, FlightGear (as of 1.9.0) explicitly requires the runway side of the taxi route to be marked as such. Secondly, taxidraw needs these OnRunway points for it's network verification tool. Thirdly, future versions of FlightGear will use other runway points for runway entrance / exit calculations, in addition to a host of other possible uses in routing (such as blocking a certain node then a crossing runway is in use, etc, etc).  

It should be noted that there is no reason why TaxiDraw should not be able to mark the runway points as such automatically. After all, the geometry information of both runways and AI nodes is available. Although this automatic feature is planned, the taxidraw developers have as of yet not found the opportunity to implement this feature. Until that time, on runway marking has to be done by hand.