I have a keen interest in the China-Burma-India "Himalaya Hump" operations in WWII, and have been compiling maps and data on the subject, but have been frustrated by the lack of airports in the flightgear scenery (Terrasync). I thought I'd task myself with creating some very simple airfields along the route (some of the actual locations are now unknown, while others may or may not be on the site of modern airports).
Trouble is, I run windows, and have followed the winding toolchain trail to a brick wall. TerraGear for windows is apparently abandoned, broken, or obsolete.
Is it possible for windows users to develop scenery at all? I'm not sure where to go next. I've been reading a thread "getting good windows builds from the Jenkins server" elsewhere, and it's too thick with detail and discussion to use as any instruction. The wiki has broken links. Pretty frustrating.
I'm really surprised at how many airports show up on the map dialog, which aren't really there in the scenery of China. I realize that the Chinese are currently building airports at a rate that would take a competent scenery developer probably couldn't keep up with, but it's pretty amazing how little development there actually is in Southern China.
I don't know where to go from here. I've installed World Editor, OK. TerraGear won't work. I don't know about installing VM. I have Ubuntu on an external drive, but because of my video card, I can't fly flightgear in linux.
What's the best option for me? Install some VM software and learn to use that so I can do fake linux? Or, run Ubuntu only for the sake of TerraGear? Or maybe create some airport data and hand it off to someone who can use TerraGear?