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Global Scenery Project

Hi!
The GSP is a good idea, but in my part of the world, images from Google Earth etc. are almost useless!

But maybe this is problem only for a small percentage of FSX-developers/users?
 
I don't think it is suggested to use the images directly (that would give trouble), but to use them as a reference to create vector data. That sounds like a sensible approach, although a world wide scope might be a bit big to start with :).
 
Markkus...thanks for the links. I don't know any swedish...is there a download feature on kartor?

Bob
 
I've just read this wiki entry for the first time....

Why would a "global scenery project" care what the data source is or what mechanism is used to create content? If, for example, I found I could legally distribute scenery developed with MarkkuS' swedish imagry source, and created that scenery using the sdk tools directly, wouldn't that be a strong contribution to global scenery project?

And yet, the way the wiki reads, that contribution would not be in the spirit of this project as it doesn't employ fsxkml and doesn't use google earth....doesn't that seem odd?

Best,
Bob
 
bob5568 said:
Markkus...thanks for the links. I don't know any swedish...is there a download feature on kartor?
Bob
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No, and thats the problem with them. Only views. I do a screendump to GIMP, when I want to save a image from them.
 
Sorry to hear that. Now you're stuck with compositing, georeferencing...too bad. Nice imagry otherwise.

B
 
MarkkuS said:
Even using them as reference here, they are useless. :(

But here in Sweden we have a couple of others image resources:
http://kartor.eniro.se/ (click "flygfoto")
http://hitta.se/ (click "Satellit")
but you can't (?) connect to them with Sbuilder or FSX_KLM :(
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Hello,

Using Mozilla > Tool > Page Information > Media I see that the images are made of 256 x 256 tiles. The naming of the tiles is related to their positions. The naming "algorithm" is not encripted and it should be easy to get the racionale of the algorithm. Therefore it should be easy to write a SBuilderX plug-in. The only thing that I am not sure (I do not know Swedish) is if the tiles obbey to a "Mercator grid".

Kind Regards,

Luis
 
Luis_Sá said:
Using Mozilla > Tool > Page Information > Media I see that the images are made of 256 x 256 tiles. The naming of the tiles is related to their positions. The naming "algorithm" is not encripted and it should be easy to get the racionale of the algorithm. Therefore it should be easy to write a SBuilderX plug-in. The only thing that I am not sure (I do not know Swedish) is if the tiles obbey to a "Mercator grid".
Kind Regards,
Luis
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I almost don't know anything about this subject, but I know the Swedish images are using WGS84.

Are there any instructions somewhere on how to write a plug-in?
 
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