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 Header:       FGWeatherFeature.h	
 Author:       Christian Mayer
 Date started: 28.05.99

 ---------- Copyright (C) 1999  Christian Mayer (vader@t-online.de) ----------

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FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
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Abstract class that every weather feature, such as wind layers, are derivated
from

HISTORY
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28.05.1999 Christian Mayer	Created
16.06.1999 Durk Talsma		Portability for Linux
20.06.1999 Christian Mayer	added lots of consts
30.06.1999 Christian Mayer	STL portability
11.10.1999 Christian Mayer	changed set<> to map<> on Bernie Bright's 
				suggestion
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/* SENTRY                                                                   */
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#ifndef FGWeatherFeature_H
#define FGWeatherFeature_H

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/* INCLUDES								    */
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#include <Include/compiler.h>
#include <vector>
FG_USING_STD(vector);
FG_USING_NAMESPACE(std);

#include <Math/point3d.hxx>
#include "FGWeatherDefs.h"
		
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/* DEFINES								    */
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enum LayerType {
    fgWind,
    fgTurbulence,
    fgTemperature,
    fgAirDensity,
    fgCloud,
    fgRain
};

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/* CLASS DECLARATION							    */
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class FGWeatherFeature
{
private:
protected:
    Point3D position;		    //middle of the feature in lat/lon/alt
    WeatherPrecition minSize;	    //smalest size of the feature
				    //=> a disk is specifies

    LayerType FeatureType; 

public:
    LayerType getFeature(void) const { return FeatureType; }
    bool isFeature(const LayerType& f) const {return (f == FeatureType);}
};

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#endif /*FGWeatherFeature_H*/