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fsx default coast res

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Greetings,

I'm looking into coastlines at the moment and the satellite photography of the region I'm working on precludes any sort of hand-drawn coastlines. I'm looking into converting NGDC shoreline data into coasts (it already comes in a .shp file), but not sure if it is of better quality than the existing FSX coastlines.

Any idea on default FSX coastline data (for an under-developed part of the world, i.e. ACES probably didn't spend any extra time/money on this), as in what is the resolution and might this be better data?

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/shorelines.html
 
Well,

to answer my own question...the shoreline data from NGDC is of much higher res than the FSX default, at least for that part of the world. It still suffers from being all straight lines and thus blocky. But lots more variation than the default. Accuracy of placement was harder to judge, but default isn't all that accurate either.

It is not hard to get the data into SBuilderX either. I use VTBuilder to import the .shp file of the entire world and then isolate the part I'm working on and save as .shp. Import the .shp file and then convert line to polygon as needed.

Not as nice as hand-drawn, but covers more area quickly and some parts of the world are impossible for handdrawn coastlines with existing satellite imagery.
 
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