FlightGear Newsletter November 2009: Difference between revisions

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 ==Scenery Corner==
+===Airport Layouts in the Scenery Database===
+As many readers will know, Martin Spott and Ralf Gerlich maintain the [http://www.custom-scenery.org/ World Custom Scenery Project], which generates the FlightGear scenery. However, the airport layout information (in apt.dat) was shared with X-Plane and maintained separately by Robin Peel. X-Plane has now moved to a new format that FG cannot currently use, and Robin is no-longer accepting layout updates in the old format (as supported by [[TaxiDraw]]). This makes including updated runway layouts in our scenery difficult.
+To resolve this, Martin is now including airport layouts as part of the custom scenery. This is great news, as many of the smaller airports around the world do not have accurate taxiways, and updating the layout using [[TaxiDraw]] is straightforward.
+If you have an updated layout to submit, please contact Martin Spott via the Forums or email. Note that the same restrictions on only using GPL-compatible data to generate the layouts applies - so tracing the layout on Google Earth/Maps isn't allowed.
 ===Dutch airports===