10.06.2009, 10:16
[quote=" just one question mate....... do you ever sleep?[/quote]
Sure ... just like everyone else ... making maps is not that hard to do once you have the system down for making them ... you do have to LIKE doing them however, as the satisfaction at the achievement is the main recompense you're likely to get ... for instance what is crazy is that I haven't flown a single real planned-for-fun mission in any of my own maps ... ha ha
Seriously though, the satisfaction is knowing that others use them with pleasure (hopefully) and that cartographically speaking, no place on Earth is inaccessible anymore. You know, I grew up in an age when earth satellites were yet to be shot into orbit ... now, all these years later, we're not taking vacations on the Moon or Mars as predicted way back then, but I can however download terrain data from any place conceivable and satellite photos and map data and use it for whatever I wish. This kind of stuff was TOP SECRET military classified back in those days.
Now its for free. That's almost enough to get a natural high ... ha ha.
Sure ... just like everyone else ... making maps is not that hard to do once you have the system down for making them ... you do have to LIKE doing them however, as the satisfaction at the achievement is the main recompense you're likely to get ... for instance what is crazy is that I haven't flown a single real planned-for-fun mission in any of my own maps ... ha ha
Seriously though, the satisfaction is knowing that others use them with pleasure (hopefully) and that cartographically speaking, no place on Earth is inaccessible anymore. You know, I grew up in an age when earth satellites were yet to be shot into orbit ... now, all these years later, we're not taking vacations on the Moon or Mars as predicted way back then, but I can however download terrain data from any place conceivable and satellite photos and map data and use it for whatever I wish. This kind of stuff was TOP SECRET military classified back in those days.
Now its for free. That's almost enough to get a natural high ... ha ha.