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2005-02-15 Dustcover: Anyway stuck temporary textures on and will will make (final ones) as (I) have time. Side pic, very nice rocket pods

SAS operates non-stops from Seattle to Europe on the polar route. Northwest and United go all sorts of weird places out of here, not to mention Areoflot. While you may think of SFO, LAX, JFK, and such as portals, and rightly they commonly are, you also have a lot of non-stop traffic originating out of Chigago-O'Hare, Dallas-Ft.Worth, I heard of a Phoenix to some bizarre place the other day as well. For example, when I flew to Israel in 2000, my flight went from Seattle (via Salt Lake City for an orientation meeting) then on to Saint Louis, JFK, then to Tel Aviv. Other's got a flight direct from Salt Lake City to Chigago, then to Frankfurt, and met us in Tel Aviv. Coming home was the same. I had a friend heading home to Alaska, a lot of flights originating in the central and east parts of the US headed for Asia top-off in Anchorage. Obviously they will make exceptions if the wings are on fire and the engines have fallen off mid-country, what I was pointing out was two things: 1) Lets take a sample flight, first random combo. UAL, Seattle to Munich. Two options going out, Seattle-San Fran-Munich, or Seattle-Chigago-Munich. There's O'Hare, in the central area, but afaik not planning to support the A380 unless it comes with a snowplow, tie-down chains, and a patronage fee for the mayor's office. Coming back, you have your choice of San Fran again or DC Dulles. You've got 3 big airports there that do international, does DHS want something that big near DC airspace? It's a rather tempting bait for conspiracy freaks who read too much Clancy. This is also a marketability reason, the more hops I have to sit through the crankier I get. 2) Lets take the next scenario, designated diversion airports. A couple months ago there was a polar non-stop that flew in - or was supposed to - from Amsterdam to Seattle. Well, it was raining again and this particular plane didn't have the blind-flight gear needed to fly into Seattle. (I know the A380 has this gear, this is a hypothetical exercise in diverted destinations.) Since they didn't have a whole lot of gas left, they put down instead at friggin' Moses Lake. It might as well be one of those places you have to buzz the field first to chase off the cows, except it also was the main test center for B-47 and B-52 development, so it has a long hard runway. The plane landed fine and taxied off to the side. Minor problem, this was a non-stop so they hadn't gone through US customs. You know those Dutch people, got to check for dope and stuff... Anyway, the nearest place was the border patrol station in Okanagon, which is always short-handed as it's an arm-pit of a backwater town. Several hours later, border customs finally shows up, and just in time, as the flight attendants almost had to lock the lavatories since they wouldn't flush anymore, and Moses Lake doesn't have big commercial flight services. It's pretty much "pump your own" there. So they finally got an INS booth setup, processed everyone, deplaned them all, and many hours after that finally got them flown into Seattle on another plane. 13 hour flight became something like 26~30. The moral of this story is that your intended airport may not always be available on arrival, and if the plane's 1/2 over the US heading to LA on a nonstop from Europe when Michael Jackson decides to lay down in the middle of the runway or something, you need some place to divert to, that can have access to unload bags, dump sewage, and fill gas back up, and be on-call 24x7. Peanuts anyone? -edit- Japan might use it as a commuter plane. According to one schedule I have from a while back, of the 45 daily flights from Tokyo (Haneda) to Sapporo (similar to SFO-LAX run), 16 are japanese seating versions of the 747-400, 3 747-SP's, 9 are 777-200, and 3 are 777-300's along with some 767's and A300's. That's an hour and thirty minute total flight. And of the 43 flights from Tokyo(Haneda) to Fukuoka (another hour and 30 min) daily, 13 are 747-400's, 3 777-300's, 15 777-200's, and 2 747-SP's. These are all capacity operations, but in order to juggle the fleets and airspace these planes are often routed through remote areas on parts of the daily flight cycle. There again, Tokyo(Haneda) is setup beautifully for domestic travel, while the international airport in Narita is a royal pain getting in and out of for just domestic puddle-jumping. However, Haneda is one of the airports that's built on a dirtfill that has weight and length problems. The only ones that are going to really bank immediately are the Gulf states airlines. They got the US to build them new jumbo airports for GW2, that gives them hubs and cuts their upgrade costs right out of the box. -edit- Pan-Am and some of the other early 747 customers toyed with having a lounge in the bubble, but they ended up pulling it shortly after launch to add more seats. Simple return on investment. It would make sense maybe on a Europe-Asia or Europe-Carribean (any planned service down there?) routes where you have time and interest to make up for lost seats. It all depends on the routes and markets.

For all the hype that they try to drag on to this ~15 yearold plane, and with all the fuss of "designed in partnership with valued customers" - this is the closer to what those alleged "valued" customers had been asking for 15 years ago in response to the botched messes of the 767, ie not bothering to design it to handle standard-sized containers for one. There was an article somewhere I saw yesterday that said that Las Vegas had just decided not to accept the A380 because there is a highway tunnel under a significant portion of the runway that they don't feel is structurally strong enough to withstand repeated usage or even 'officially designated' emergancy use. Now if the wings were on fire and engines falling off, that's a different story, but Las Vegas was declined 'routine' diversions. Seattle's SeaTac also has a similar tunnel, and I'm thinking Logan in Boston does too. The article mentioned that there was only a couple airports on the east coast plus LAX that were going to handle it. Bear in mind that it's not so much as to whether the tunnels can actually hold the impact from a strictly engineering standpoint, as it is more for putting failure probability so far into the absurd as to prevent litigation. Internationally you have other airports with weight or length issues. Some places like Honolulu, the Hong Kong and Taipei airports, Tokyo-Haneda (yes it's chiefly domestic but just a case in point), and others are on manmade islands, and have had weight and settling issues in the past. Additionally expanding them is often difficult to maintaining the structural integrity of the groundbase. As it now stands, there is no designated diversion airport for the A380 between the west coast and the east coast of the US. That may or may not be a crucial factor in deployability and marketability.

If I understood SCARS correctly, he was procrastinating dealing with configs and scripting until the modeling was done. It appears that he's done some significant remodeling since mid-January, and has had to revist some of the textures as a result. Secondly, a lot of the effects may involve some model tweaks like model components and memory points et al, so that could add some complications as well. SCARS made a request some time ago for scripting support advisors for effects systems. I don't know what's actually going on with the development, I just translate and post the blog entries here as I see them come up on my semi-infrequent checkup.

2005-02-12 Exhibit A The above (picture'd) model is totally changed from the original construction. The cockpit is much more decorated and the wings narrowed, if you look at the image you'll see that as an actual hind it's tilted to the right, among various other changes. Exhibit B The nose sensor (?) looks a little different, looking at the image it seems to be an improvement. The lower (image) is the thing after improvement. However, after textures were applied other model improvements (unavoidablely blocked/interfered). So it became neccessary to newly paste in the changed model sections... If the model had been more completely made before making the textures it would have been good.

How so? Bush called them Axis of Evil a long time ago, why shouldn't there be political pressure this time too? A lot of the world agreed that burning witches once was good for the environment, and lots of people were in the consensus that the world is flat. Does that make it accurate? No, that is only the majority opinion, based on what ever they claim it to be. No, as in I'm a scrawny little IT nerd with a bad back and worse vision that wouldn't qualify for much of anything. I can push buttons, but thats probably all I'm good for as far as the military would be concerned. Is gas WMD's? First time I've heard that it's not. Sources: You take Kim Jong Il to be more credible than Chalabi? Chalabi at least knows how to make himself presentable in public and spin a plausable story. Kim Jong Il on the other hand has been hitting the scotch a bit too much. The situation is there is a DMZ, but still a active state of war between the Korea's. Claiming to bring in nukes is not exactly small fries in a shooting war. Secondly, Kim Jong Il kicked out the surveillance, so 'officially' we have no idea what he's upto. Is that probable cause for suspicion of unfriendly activities that should be investigated further? Or should we sit around and ignore it all? They do a job that I'm not certain I could do myself. I have no place to complain about the job done for me that I can't do myself. I have always disagreed with the initial whitewashing of the Iraq justifications as I have posted here before, and argued elsewhere. It tracks from the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" arguement for democracy. If anything, I wish Bush had been more open about the democracy drive, and shove all the ingrate moonbats out to blink their eyes out in the light. That would have really made for a clear election referendum last year. Instead of dealing with 'I voted against WMD's before I found out that they (we, mr. member of the senate intelligence committe which has oversight to prevent such things) were misled' - we would have been favored with "I actually voted for free Iraqi elections, before I voted against them."

If I enlist it would be as a VBS server op or map maker. What I was saying is that I've heard of nothing more substantial on NK than was taken crediblely by TBA as the premise of Iraq, so what I'm questioning is why you would accept those same sources for NK that you reject for Iraq. I have not heard calls for inspectors to NK any where near the level that were demanded for Saddam. If you want to call for inspectors fine, but do it consistently across the board. If you want to question CIA intelligence fine, but do it across the board.

If you notice my rambles above they reference shifting US military doctrine and policy. The prior Cold War policy was to form a human wall to be a diplomatic tripwire tirgger, and provide the muscle to slug it out back up the Frozen Chosen, with the presumption of PLA units mirroring those engagements. War of attrition. Conversely, the high-mobility rapid raiding policies and systems being implemented today are designed to rapidly neutralize precise targets of opportunity, and let the infrastructure collapse behind it. Rather than use our weapons to disable the infrastructure, let them wear it down logistically by having to compensate for precision disruptions. While the DPRK claims to have a massively huge and wonderful army, it remains to be seen as to what operating condition it really is in. The most likely scenario is that they'd run out of gas pulling out of the yards, thus blocking the PLA from rendering effective assistance. Massive classicly organized militaries can actually be counter-productive in certain situations, as evidenced to some degree by both sides in Iraq. They're critical for occupational capabilities, but can inhibit mobility and flexibility in tactical operations. And what 'intelligence' do you cite as factual basis for that, aside from DPRK demagogery? We knew publically that they had glowing stuff until they turned the cameras off and broke the seals, and now we think they're doing something, but the IAEA doesn't have a clue for sure. Pundits of prognostication have suggested that given the materials we know they had, and the time and resources we guess they have, they might have x weapons of y capability - numbers derived from astrology, nielson ratings, and vegas bar stools. So now where's the calls for the inspectors? Where's the million martyrs - er human shields - for Kim Jong Il? (Hint, don't send your daughters) Send Jimmy Carter - again - he knows how to make peace in our time.

What they're saying is that if he's got nukes, they're hiding underground in hidden facilities. What people forget is that Nasa published some radar images of several layers under the Nile as a hint to the Soviet Union that it was pointless to try to hide their silos in the late 70's to early 80's. That's one of the main reasons why they developed such a mobile rocket system, plus they had the concerns of having to guard the Iron Curtain from NATO, and simultaniously have to maintain readiness on the China border. Nobody's saying just how much radiation has been pumped into the North Koreans as of late, but I suspect that their winters haven't been as cold as they otherwise might have. I suspect that the US has a pretty good idea of what kinds of MOAB's would be needed to seal off what points. Secondly, in the major longterm redeployments announced last year, all the fuss was about pulling divisions out of Europe. Seriously, what're heavy armored divisions needed for there now? Anyway, in that list, was some quiet notes about Japan and the Koreas. First off the USDOD is looking at pulling out a significant portion of the heavy divisions out of South Korean stationing. But they are in turn planing to increase forward positioning of either a MEU or an Army rapidly deployable unit like a stryker brigade between Guam and Okinawa or such. This would also include a repositioning of other units stationed in elsewhere in Japan as well. Along with that the Japanese Government under PM Koizumi Junichiro has taken a bunch of drastic new policy shifts in regards to diplomatic and military commitments. Until recently, Japan has traditionally abstained from exercising a substantive role in regional diplomatic stabilization due to the fierce rhetoric out of Pyoungyang and Beijing regarding the Manchurian expansion period. Koizumi, following 911, has taken a very outspoken position and has rammed through societal and policy changes that argueabley exceed the level of cultural change debated under the heading of the Patriot act. The deployment of units from the JSDF marked the first foreign expeditionary deployment of the Japanese military since the surrender in 1945, and was fiercely debated in the Diet. There was substantial arguements and legal wranglings alledging that their deployment was unconstitutional under the draconian MacArthurian constitutional provisions. Additionally Beijing was threatening hellfire and damnation and a million Hiroshimas if Japan shipped out those units. Koizumi won out and they went to Iraq. At the same time Koizumi also turned around and jumped on board as a key pusher in the regional talks intent on neutralizing the DPRK. The Koizumi administration successfully cornered the DPRK on the issue of a number of kidnappings dating back 20 and 30 years, and forced the reunification of the seperated family members. This was then followed by Japan helping to push the regional talks along, until the DPRK broke them off and decided to try their luck again propagandizing FUD about Yankee Imperialist aggressions. Very recently, Japan is again testing constitutionality waters with agreements to co-develop and deploy theater-located ABM systems. This brings Japan in as a potentially shooting partner in a nuclear engagement. With the currently promoted doctrine of eliminating missiles as close to lauch as possible, ideally over the launching country, it would also stand to reason that second generation systems like the airborne Laser ABM system under development would also be forward-positioned, likely in Japan.

Please, what every you do, pack it so that it can be patched easily, and don't bundle the map and textures together. Kepp them seperate. And make it a bittorrent too.

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its about time the rest of the PNW starts showing up. sigh, it's empty up here.

Interesting. There was a report in IEEE Spectrum or Computer last year iirc that addressed a similar research project - but from an academic and software approach - about a system of TinyOS microsensors. While that could generate much more detailed data for academic and research analysis, this system is much mor practical for deployability.

Just the usual NIMBY "no nukes" stuff. It's a shame, since there's been plenty of research done on nuclear and ion drives going back decades, but again politics - from the other side of the aisle - is killing that off. Article somewhere through slashdot I think said that Hubble was intended to be shuttle-maintanenced every few years, like it was specifically rigged to require the most complicated support possible. It's not like they don't know how to make them resiliant, aren't MISTY and the KH birds still up after how many years? Yeah Intelstar lost a couple biggies over the last couple months, but that's the exception not the rule.

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Sigh, it goes around in cycles. On the engineering side of the house, you have lower-level managers and team leaders who understand the need to get the job done fast and right, and use whatever rational means necessary. For that reason, in one group in Sustained Engineering, a manager stated that only white-box machines would be authorized, no big-label machines due to the inflexibility, increased downtime, and cost overhead. And it worked. 50~75% of the employees in that Windows testing group had Linux on one or more machines to learn systems management on their own in between test cycles. The platform was not generally business essential, but the exercise was invaluable for engineering skills enhancement, and thus was overlooked. Employees rolled their own systems and lived 'real' dogfood, not the current spoonfed mush. People's email would go down, and managers would get cranky. But you were expected to come to the table with some idea of the likely problem and possible solutions, and you had better have worked through the issue before you got summoned to the war room. Now, things are different. http://netsec runs things with an iron hand. They're so paranoid of Longhorn pics getting out that there's a phyiscal network blackhole around the upper 20's buildings. If you're a poor sap running the official AV suite and click on the wrong link with the official browser and get a virus, your tap is turned off and your machine is ordered wiped. No exceptions, recovery-quarantine not allowed. Heaven help you if they don't like what they see when they run the routine SMS bots on your machines. Even the entire XP key system is sent to sleep with the fishies. You have to get manager approval to activate more than 3 desktops or one server, and your keys only work with the internal auth servers, and are matched to your user account. The DFS http://products is still there for those who know how to work it, but it's slowly being purged to the internal MS Catalog. Even Sharepoint Server is another issue. Prior to Sharepoint, each dept rolled their own, but with the number of wannabe sql and ASP junkies and Excel whizkids it generally wasn't trouble for small teams. Sync'ing data and making group level reports was a nightmare though, and folks would routinely get publically chewed out by brianv. Sharepoint was billed as the end-all to fix that, protect the data, and sync it all up. The real effect is this: data ACL's are now mandatory and audited. They know where your data is and what you're doing with it. You still need people to manage it all, only they need to be technical writers, XML designers, and Infopath monkeys. There's a lot of empty sites because the overhead is too much for a lot of teams. They ought to be on their hands and knees thanking billg that he hasn't moved them to Siebel, yet... jallchin, that guy's got issues. Mad Hatter on crack. The W2K completion video he made of him dissing the competition's receptionists and assaulting a penguin in their parking lots with a baseball bat was rather tasteless and offensive. My hat's off to the little guys in the trenches. They beat their heads against the wall making components that they know are designed only for the quircks of the REDMOND domain, or are ordered to do it that way by legal so they can hijack the appeals process. Remember how the formerly independent IE got grandfathered in as an essential OS component? My real pity though is for the solutions services group. When all your coworkers are in Bangalore, and you're expected to keep their hours and your clients... sigh. One rule of thumb was "yes, the employment contract says 60 minute break for lunch. Your boss also reminds you in the followup email to your daily helpdesk performance audit that you have a mandatory 20min response time. That's why it's a good idea to keep a couple boxes of poptarts in your tech bag you work the halls with, because that's all the lunch and break you get, or at least until the cafeteria closes.

spawn a logic, target it, then setpos the logic to the designated enemy?

Topic in OT thread www.egmmag.com now redirects to egm.1up.com, and older articles appear to no longer be available. Check the ever-useful OT thread above for email logs and timeline of legal threats, retractions, official apologies, and statements of donations to the US VFW and RU MVD veterans groups.

So it did, but that was only the trigger. Why was the trigger an issue? Because of the lack of democracy. There's a whole lot of people that loudly defend their own freedom on both sides, but suddenly get real squeamish about extending and protecting those same freedoms to others. Bush knew that and understood that, so that's why he didn't bother spelling that out to an unwilling audience in the UN - where Mummar Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein chair the human rights councils - or in congress that hasn't learned how to outsource votes yet. Aren't we supposed to have MoveOn'd past the Jackson family? Since people are willing to validate the principles of socialism that the citizenry are collectively and individually too stupid to take care of themselves, why not setup the mother of all parties and bleed them dry financially to cover the costs of their therapy? ESPN Columnist Bill Simmons I never said COMDEX controlled IT, anymore than E3 controls gaming. What they are - or in the the case of COMDEX were - is a huge kick in the pants for the industry. Companies came out with new toys to pimp, people came to get all enthusiastic about geekdom, and folks went back to work ready to take on the world. Now the managers have subverted COMDEX, and the love is lost. like the guy recently that called up the FBI and said that a bunch of people were going to nuke boston, turns out that he was just trying to pwn another illegal alien smuggler, but use the FBI to do his dirty work. Any idea how much that investigation and panic cost? Any idea how many Border Patrol agent's salary could have been covered if the policy was to seriously stop them at the border, instead of declaring sanctuary zones? Your dams traditionally run dry earlier than ours do, so the grid borrows power from us to keep your lights on. The energy company rackets were setup by mismanaged deregulation and prosecuted by both parties when they blew up. Put a windmill on Pelosi's and Boxer's mouths and you'll keep Cupertino in business. I didn't say Fox was unbiased, I just happen to prefer their bias, and based on their ratings compared to CNN, so do a lot of other people.

8x AGP is pretty much maxed out in data transfer and power supply capability. AGP was only a hack-around as the old PCI bus didn't have enough capacity to handle high-end video. Because the PCI bus was so inferior to the higher-end buses like the CPU Front-side bus, it is generally banished to the far end of the data food chain. Chipset vendors have tried to work around this as much as possible, but there hasn't really been the desktop demand for more capacity in general devices until now. Video on the other hand has had some aggressive demands for some time, so AGP was proposed as a way to completely bypass the PCI-bus strangling and suck up gobs of data. It was kludgey limited, and a workaround. Other solutions at the time such as 64-bit classic PCI or accelerated PCI were hacks themselves, and didn't do anything about serious generational improvements. PCI Express took some of the design from the accelerated PCI systems used for workstations and servers, technology concepts from future solutions like I2O, and lessons learned from AGP, and extends it across the whole system. PCIx is scaleable from 32-bit bandwidths resembling legacy PCI slots, to 64-bit monsters capable of blasting some serious floods of molten data back and forth. Where we could really see some fun is in stuff that hasn't begun to really be explored on the desktop or home market yet. Your system resources, such as IO controllers and audio devices and network adaptors could all be stuffed on PCIx giving them lots of potential for abuse and straitjacketing by the system demands of Longhorn.

Listening to the callers on CSPAN afterwards, I was reminded of the growing situation of unnegotiatable division. Far too many of the issues are such that there exists no common ground: <ul> [*]Either marriage is a moral obligation ordained of God, or it is passing fad of business-like partnerships of convienence. [*]Either the citizen is ultimately responsible for the individual, or the state. [*]Either freed mankind has an obligation to extend life and liberty to those without, or relegate freedom to the libraries of antiquities or theoretical studies. [*]Either life is designed and created by God with the mandate for self and societal betterment, or is a passing aberrition in a nihilistic chaos. You have the pinko commies calling the right-wing fascists Imperialist swine intent on enslaving the world, and in return are themselves branded as having no qualms about buying and selling those very same slaves for personal self-gratification. Of course Bush is predictable - to an extent - that's why he got elected. Those of us that prefer Cowboy diplomacy deliberately and conciously understood that, and that's why we voted for him. Similarly, Sen. Reid and Rep. Pelosi are equally predictable in their fear-mongering. They were voted in by their constituents that support their predictable retoric. What we are on the edge of is closure of dialogue not because of the resolution of common issues, but the mutually exclusive and unnegotiatable positions on those issues. The left is as fundamentalist as the right, and neither side can turn away without selling their souls, although each accuses the other of already having done so. While I may disagree occasionally with minor or trivial details of President Bush's platforms, I voted for him because I knew where he stands, and I knew where Sen. Kerry stands, and I made a concious decision that I could not in good faith support Kerry, but I could support Bush, and I felt that was the right direction. I have friends that felt and voted exactly opposite, in identially the same process. I also have a friend that has a son serving in Iraq. He came home on leave around Christmas, and his mother told how she was so sick and worried about him above everything else, she voted for Kerry, in the hopes that Kerry instead would pullout immediately. He paused, shook his head in disappointment over her lack of concern for the other reasons, and said "well, I guess thats the mother in you speaking." That's what the mom told me. She understood where Kerry stood, and made a competent, informed decision when she cast her ballot. Normally I try to be maniacally optimistic, but when I'm reminded of the sobering chasm that exists between the right and the left on these issues, it it clear that the so-called center either is in the middle of the right, or in the middle of the left, but not in between the two. How do propose to sit on the fence if it is concertina razor wire? As for Iraq and the WMD broohahah, I always thought it was a weak excuse to try to pan it off as a WMD hunt under stated presumed intelligence. If you'd paid attention from day one you would have known that the primary purpose was indeed to lynch Saddam, prop up a democracy of some kind, split the ME down the middle, and play both sides against the middle. That's the kind of cowboy diplomacy I understood from day one, and that's what I and the majority of voters voted for in the 2004 elections. If Sen. Reid is so concerned about debt, he should follow an ESPN sportscaster's advice and push to have Las Vegas host the Super Bowl every third year. He should also pressure Comdex to rethink the error of strangleing the greatest IT circus ever to re-energize the IT industry. Rep. Pelosi needs to look in her own backyard when Mexican human smugglers can manipulate the nation's law enforcement system. Rep. Pelosi also needs to look at addressing crediblely the energy system. For too many years California has been leeching off Washington hydro power rather than fix their own anal-retentive energy euthanasia policies. Well guess what, we're probably not going to have enough water in the dams this year for us due to the Portland anarchists stealing our snow again this year, so that means blackouts for you SoCal, unless Sen. Reid can spare you anymore watts. -edit- Transcript of the speech, courtesy a network that still has ratings, and hasn't had journalists embeded with Saddam Hussien: Fox News

Any particular reason why you're not running nomap without mods?

I'm not jumping on you, and I'm not in COC or WGL either. I'm just stating stuff you should be aware of when tinkering with the WGL core. CCP2BIN has a horde of known bugs, and doesn't work all that well for a lot of bin-packing. What you can do instead is just use the cpp's directly, they should work fine, as long as there are no named BIN's around.

I'm guessing that you're trying to use COC's Binview to read the config. Well, COC's got it locked up specifically so you can't read the WGL bin, so you don't do what you're trying to do. What I think of that in relation to the OFP gaming community is my own personal opinion, but I also understand why they did it in light of their other projects, so I'm not complaining. It was never intended to be a community project, it has always explictily been a mod team project. If you would like to see such a change made, your best option is to detail out a list of desired changes, explain why it's in WGL-COC's best interest to do so, and how to minimize the potential impacts of performance and balance. Then take that list and submit it to them for their consideration, and go from there. -edit- forgot the most important detail. Since your suggestion is an unsolicited contribution, you'd want to get a professional attorney experienced in international Intellectual Property law to write up a waiver whereby you relinquish any and all IP you may hold in the suggestions, and surrender them as sole IP of the WGL team for them to use in their projects, whether private or commercial, and get it notarized too.

Oh yeah, one other itty-bitty bit of non-trivial data. Since the world ain't flat, GIS data ain't square. One end's wider than the other in RL, and you have some 'skewing' on the sides. Pretty much a non-issue though with 50m resolution on 12.8 km maps, but it scales. Just something to watch out for.