Guidance on creating my own data files

[Barry Marcus]

Hello all,

I am a new member to the group, as well as a new user of XCSoar, so be kind
if I what I ask makes little sense!  :-)  I am interested in creating my own
data files for use with XCSoar.  I fly in rural Southern Illinois in the
U.S. (near St. Louis, MO), and I do not see any data files for this area on
the XCSoar site.  Ideally, I would like to build a map file (.XCM format),
but would be happy with files of terrain and topology for now.

Any guidance that anyone can provide on the tools and resources needed to
accomplish this would be greatly appreciated.  I have subscribed to the
devel group (that is, in addition to the users group) since I am by
profession a software developer with 25 years experience, as well as a
sailplane pilot.  So while I may not be initially familiar with the tools,
file formats, etc., I fell confident that I can eventually come up to speed.


BTW, I have extensive experience with Java and a number of .NET dialects, so
if those are skills for which this group has a need, please let me know.

Thanks in advance,

Barry


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[Eric Frias-3]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Barry Marcus <barry@...> wrote:
> Ideally, I would like to build a map file (.XCM format),
> but would be happy with files of terrain and topology for now.

The easy way to do it is to head over to the terrain generator at
http://xcsoar.dd.com.au/cgi-bin/terrain.pl
and tell it what you want.  This will generate either the new XCM
format or the separate terrain & topology files for you to download.

Eric

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[John Wharington-3]

And a bit more info if you're adventurous:
  The xcm files are actually zip files, specially constructed so that
the terrain .jp2 file contained therein is not compressed.

What this means is that you can rename the xcm file to a zip, extract
then edit the waypoint file, and re-insert it into the zip file,
renaming it back to xcm.



On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:14 -0400, Eric Frias wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Barry Marcus <barry@...> wrote:
> > Ideally, I would like to build a map file (.XCM format),
> > but would be happy with files of terrain and topology for now.
>
> The easy way to do it is to head over to the terrain generator at
> http://xcsoar.dd.com.au/cgi-bin/terrain.pl
> and tell it what you want.  This will generate either the new XCM
> format or the separate terrain & topology files for you to download.
>
> Eric
>
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