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How to Update an Airport

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Hi, I want to learn how to update an airport that's in my location. The airport is Birmingham's Shuttleworth International, and the ICAO is KBHM. The new A concourse has been added and the C Concourse has been widened and gates added. How do I go about making these changes using the ADE? The airport AFCAD contained in the scenery file is dated 2008 and would like to update it to 2015 with the new terminals? Also, is it better to start from scratch or do I just use the old AFCAD and make the updates using the ADE? I also wanted to ask if there is a template of some sort that can be used along with ADE to make these changes accurate using Google Earth and if so, how do I go about getting that? The reason I ask is because I've noticed that some developers use Google Earth to design these airport files.

Ken.
 
Best way to make a template is to take a screenshot of the airport from google maps (or several more zoomed in), tile them and then crop the image.

Then use google maps by right clicking and selecting "what's here" to define the north, east, south and west extents of the image.

Then open up ADE, right click, select "add image" and open the image and enter the edge coordinates in.

Then use this as the template to update the airport.
 
Shaun said:
Best way to make a template is to take a screenshot of the airport from google maps (or several more zoomed in), tile them and then crop the image.

Then use google maps by right clicking and selecting "what's here" to define the north, east, south and west extents of the image.

Then open up ADE, right click, select "add image" and open the image and enter the edge coordinates in.

Then use this as the template to update the airport.
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Hi Shaun,
I have a few questions to ask. What do you mean when you say "tile them and then crop the image" and also what do you mean when you say "then open up ADE, right click, select "add image" and open the image and enter the edge coordinates in." I've tried these and it's not doing what you're saying.

Ken.
 
Well, it's probably got the wrong coordinates.

You can use SBuilderX to make a photoscenery, or take screenshots of google maps/earth and paste them as a mosaic into one image. If you zoom in, you can't get the whole airport in one shot, so have to take many.
 
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