[Flightgear-devel] Scotland Scenery

[Stuart Buchanan]

Hi All,

For my own amusement, I generated some scenery for Scotland using the GSHHS 
coastline and OpenStreetMap for roads. Scotland greatly benefits from using 
GSHHS coastline, as the VMAP0 data doesn't include many of the small islands on 
the west coast. There are sufficiently few roads that the OSM dataset works 
quite well also - you can even see some roundabouts!

For those who might be interested in doing some flying in Scotland, it is 
available here:

http://flightgear.mxchange.org/stuart/scotland.tar.gz (35MB)

Many thanks to Roland Haeder for hosting it.

Note that the scenery package is only the Terrain part, and doesn't include 
any Objects. It should be uncompressed into the Terrain sub-directory of your 
$FG_SCENERY (e.g. data/Scenery).

As always, objects should be downloaded from http://scenemodels.flightgear.org/.

For those unfamiliar with Scotland, there is a small suggested flight around my 
home city of Edinburgh here:
As suggested flight for those who have downloaded both the scenery and objects 
is this: 
http://wiki.flightgear.org/flightgear_wiki/index.php?title=Suggested_Flights#Scotland_-_Edinburgh_to_Dundee

I'd also highly recommend taking off from Oban and As suggested flight for 
those who have downloaded both the scenery and objects is this: flying in the 
mountains in a fast military jet. After all, that's what the RAF do!

The fact that I was able to generate scenery using TerraGear for amusement is 
a testament to the effort that the Custom Scenery team 
(http://www.custom-scenery.org/) have made to make TerraGear easier to use. 
Many thanks to Martin and Ralf for their work.

-Stuart


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scotland Scenery

[Georg Vollnhals]

Hi Stuart,

thank you for sharing this as I am especially interested in all scenery 
which uses OSM data.

Last year I bought a cheap handheld GPS device and collected some local 
data for OSM and uploaded them - but what a rapid development here 
around Bremen until now, very very busy people improving the data every 
day. Even forrests and rivers are represented in a very nice way in the 
local dataset.
That is why I hope that in some years - regarding the poor man-power, 
only 2 developers - we can use OSM data at good data-represented areas.

Stuart Buchanan schrieb:
 Hi All,

 For my own amusement, I generated some scenery for Scotland using the GSHHS 
 coastline and OpenStreetMap for roads. Scotland greatly benefits from using 
 GSHHS coastline, as the VMAP0 data doesn't include many of the small islands 
 on the west coast. There are sufficiently few roads that the OSM dataset 
 works quite well also - you can even see some roundabouts!
   
Yes, saw them - and the difference between normal streets and 
motorways (double lines). Moreover those streets are smoother than the 
ones we have now.
 For those who might be interested in doing some flying in Scotland, it is 
 available here:

 http://flightgear.mxchange.org/stuart/scotland.tar.gz (35MB)

 Many thanks to Roland Haeder for hosting it.

   
..
 The fact that I was able to generate scenery using TerraGear for amusement 
 is a testament to the effort that the Custom Scenery team 
 (http://www.custom-scenery.org/) have made to make TerraGear easier to use. 
 Many thanks to Martin and Ralf for their work.

 -Stuart


  
Thanks a lot to all who are working for or supporting getting OSM data 
(not only streets) into FlightGear.

Georg EDDW

(Beside this, simflying this scenery is a real joy as the landscape is 
fascinating, especially the contrast between sea and mountaineous areas. 
I hope you'll spend some more nice models for this area, the scenery 
deserves it :-)  )

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