{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bobombolo/realterrain/issues/9","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bobombolo/realterrain/issues/9/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bobombolo/realterrain/issues/9/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bobombolo/realterrain/issues/9/events","html_url":"https://github.com/bobombolo/realterrain/issues/9","id":112444405,"number":9,"title":"biomes (groundcover)","user":{"login":"bobombolo","id":12679496,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12679496?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo","html_url":"https://github.com/bobombolo","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bobombolo/realterrain/labels/use%20case%20clarification","name":"use case clarification","color":"eb6420"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":10,"created_at":"2015-10-20T19:37:30Z","updated_at":"2015-10-25T01:14:35Z","closed_at":null,"body":"do we want to have settings for the different cover layers or do we want to do it by naming convention? Do we want to have one file with different channels, and different values representing different kinds of cover or different files? probably a combination of different files and different values but not different channels. and for future convenience probably set by settings in-game. this allows for ease of creation, and easy of change.\r\n\r\nrequired fields for cover files:\r\n-biomes, break values for different biomes which will determine default ground, grass, shrub, trees\r\n-vegetation: break values for grass, shrubs, trees which will explicitly place specific items (may be redundant to biomes but use cases for both are easy to imagine)\r\n-human: break values for roads, different building heights, signs, chests, other items\r\n-water: rivers and lakes\r\n\r\nOR\r\n\r\nfiles for the following layers\r\nbiomes\r\ntrees\r\nwater\r\nroads\r\nAND\r\nbuildings (top-left corners) with break values for building type (mts import)\r\nitem placement (break values for item type)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bobombolo/realterrain/issues/comments/150878506","html_url":"https://github.com/bobombolo/realterrain/issues/9#issuecomment-150878506","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/bobombolo/realterrain/issues/9","id":150878506,"user":{"login":"bobombolo","id":12679496,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12679496?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo","html_url":"https://github.com/bobombolo","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bobombolo/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-25T01:14:35Z","updated_at":"2015-10-25T01:14:35Z","body":"an excellent parallel to \"biomes\" and more interesting than USGS landcover classification is the idea of BioGeoClimatic Zones such as those used in BC https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/library/documents/treebook/biogeo/biogeo.htm\r\neach region has different possible zones, so there are potentially a great many of them, but in BC for example there are 17, a manageable number. However for the average map size or study area there are probably too few zones present to be useful, and then maybe USGS landcover / landuse is more interesting."}}