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List:       flightgear-devel
Subject:    Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery pack size for 2020.1 (and 2020.2...)
From:       Scott <scttgs0 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2020-04-30 22:52:06
Message-ID: 8958a9b9-41f4-4a2f-0913-803d3b4821d0 () gmail ! com
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I think we need to establish a repeatable guideline because this 
approach seems excessive.

Considering precedence, when Honolulu was the default airport we shipped 
all of O'ahu because all the terrain was within 45km from PHNL.
Now for Keflavik, we are discussing whether to ship all of Iceland 
including terrain 450km from BIKF.

50km surrounding the default airport seems like a better rule-of-thumb.   
I don't know how big the Boston package was when it released, but I'll 
speculate it was quite small from a terrain area perspective.

Scott


On 4/30/20 4:39 PM, Richard Harrison wrote:
>>> Assuming the whole is available via TS then the smaller size makes 
>>> sense for the scenery package.
>>
>> Okay, that's one vote for ‘the whole thing' and one vote for ‘keep it 
>> a bit smaller' - anyone else feel strongly either way?
>
> I'm always a big fan of reducing the overall download size of the 
> initial package - but for the install packages I've previously found 
> it useful that what we ship has a 'frozen in time' section of scenery 
> shipped with it. Because terrasync keeps getting updated (as it 
> should) if we rely on a terrasync download for the rest of the Island 
> when maybe in 10 years terrasync won't work the way that the install 
> package expects it to.
>
> So ship as much as we can; 2.4gb is but a thimble full of bandwidth 
> these days.
>
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