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Land "tiles" in middle of ocean

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I am using FSX KML to remove and replace Madeira. I have edited the APX43200.BGL file to change the airport altitude and placed this file in the World Scenery folder. Left the APX43200.BGL and cvx4320.bgl in the 0502 scenery folder as is. Created a new cvx file in addon scenery with the following:-
Exclude___Everything
Hydro_Polygons_Generic_Ocean_Perennial
PolygonHole
Shorelines_Generic_Ocean
LandClassPoly_Mediterranean_Scrub
Airport_Backgrounds_Flatten_ExcludeAutoGen
LandClassPoly_Grass
LandClassPoly_Airfield1

Result is island is in the correct location with airport at correct altitude but there is land mass outside the exclude polgon in rectangular squares sitting in the wider ocean.

Any ideas?

regards
john
 
FSX is built on land. When you exclude the water e.g.
Hydro_Polygons_Generic_Ocean_Perennial

It excludes everything out to a qmid boundary randomly between 11 and 13 (hard to guess when it will jump to a new boundary).

Run a test by putting a small exclude in your area and you can see how far out the land goes. SbuilderX and tmf viewer can show you were the qmid lines are... not sure about fsx kml.

This can get quite painful when you have to rebuild a coastline that has been wiped out.

Generally easy to fix when it just goes out into open water and you lay new vector water over that.
 
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