Lil update since we've been silent for like half a year.
So... we've completely redesigned our worldbuild scripts to be more flexible so they can be used for this and vpb and osm2city and basically anything else one would want to do on a global scale (initial setup still needs to be improved and documented).
One thing we still kinda wanna redesign would be the map using leaflet but we've got no experience with it and displaying all the data at once causes some lag so some help implementing this would be appreciated.
We've currently still got the old map for the project available
hereWe've now build ortho scenery for Stuarts WS30_CA2 area. Point your terrasync client
here to get the ortho scenery, base scenery needs to be downloaded separately.
This shows that the source we've got for the US is suitable and in theory we could cover the entire US (with enough motivation towards us ig. as this isn't really our area we're interested in)
With Stuart we did a minimal test of terrasync download of ws3 scenery and ortho. According to him, the test was a success.
We did solve the hosting problem for now, tho we're not sure the solution will work when ws3 and ortho will be default in a future flightgear release as we still are limited by our uplink.
Also by implementing this solution means even more cost we cover our self rn for running the required servers and infra.
As of right now, we've got about 300GB of open source, redistributeable scenery.
Where will the future take us?
As mentioned above, covering the entire US is an option (enough incentives provided), we're looking at completely covering Europe and our other place of interest Australia.
Right now we kinda also depend on having ws3 base scenery available for the areas in question as there's no global coverage yet.
Code wise we're mostly happy with how it runs now apart from the above mentioned map change and some other things on the web status page which will make our life easier running this.
Apart from that, the things we wanna do are:
* Find a way to maybe offset the costs we've got for running this (including a long needed hardware upgrade, among others cause of rising energy prices and running out of disk space)
* Add more areas by finding suitable sources. Checking them for license, adding the sources to the system and after it ran, check the results.
These are points where we could use help. No code knowledge required.
ig. that's it for now, we hope to be more active on this again, provided we've got the spoons for it.