FGX Globe Wish List & Road Map

FGX Globe Wish List & Road Map

Geoff ~ 2013-03-09

A working globe where I can follow MY flight...
Yes, I do want the zoomed out view to see where
everyone else is, but it does NOT need airports
until zoomed in...

And I want to zoom right in to where there is just me flying along... maybe or maybe not drawing a track
showing me where I've been... but an interesting
one is an extended 'track' in front of me showing
me where I am headed... what intersects with my present course...

With nearby airports, runways, ILS and navaids
show, which give me information if I hover...

Something like that...

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And on such popups, I think I would prefer they always appeared at say 0,0, rather than being attached to where the mouse hovers...

API via query string

• 2013-02-27 ~ update the URL with current settings
• select lat/long initial view << 2013-02-27 ~ done
• select zoom, plane scale and altitude scale of initial view << 2013-02-27 ~ done
• set display refresh time << 2013-02-27 ~ done
• select map type and other accouterments

General Coding

• 2013-02-27 ~ Pete ~ use a well-formed named space
• 2013-02-27 ~ Pate ~ unfailingly embeddable
• 2013-02-27 ~ tested and working on Chrome, FF, Safari & IE (with canvas)
• 2013-03-01 ~ algorithm that looks at FPS and advises how objects can be displayed without degrading performance

Aircraft Models and Display

• At least half a dozen different low polygon 3D model types
• find way to go from AC3D to Blender to low poly count JSON
• lines from planes to center of earth - to help identify location of the plane

Chat Display

• links to IRC, Twitter FlightGear feeds

Heads-Up Display

• PushPin one or more head-up displays / track plane movement? or fixed to side of screen?
• lat/long max 4 digits << 2013-02-27 ~ done
• use foot and degree symbols << 2013-02-27 ~ done
• Display thumbnail images << 2013-02-27 ~ done
• link to Google street view/local map

Tracking

• View follows plane
• multi-viewposts to follow multiple planes

Globe Display

• Old-Timey view with bitmap of world, clouds all around, images of Neptune an shipwrecks etc.
• LOD detail as you zoom in. At some point switch to Open Street/Google maps
• sunlight and shade

Weather & Other Data Display

• cover the globe with current Weather Underground satellite image of cloud cover
• Use shaders to display weather conditions, jet stream in 3D
• Display the real planes currently in the sky as well

User Interface

• Controls in slide in/out side bar or similar
• Full set of controls to reset, zoom, pan, rotate
• WASD/Cursor keys + mouse flight controls
• 2013-02-27 ~ Pete ~ Toggle for no vertical motion
• 2013-03-01 ~ Geoff ~ Storing user preferences. Using cookies perhaps?