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LOD Extents Calculator

rhumbaflappy

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Hi all.

Here's a handy program to get the containing boundries of a lat-long location. It will return the LOD5 -> LOD9 boundries. Very useful for Ground2K,G2k4, Sbuilder and SBuilderX.

Using a GIS program for data or images, is made easier as it easily calculated exact extents, or oversized extents.

This gadget is very useful with the tile gathering/combining features found in programs such as those found at AllAllsoft.com




Dick
 
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rhumbaflappy said:
Hi all.

Here's a handy program to get the containing boundries of a lat-long location. It will return the LOD5 -> LOD9 boundries. Very useful for Ground2K,G2k4, Sbuilder and SBuilderX.

Using a GIS program for data or images, is made easier as it easily calculated exact extents, or oversized extents.

This gadget is very useful with the tile gathering/combining features found in programs such as those found at AllAllsoft.com

Dick
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Thanks Dick :)
 
I don't know exactly what the N|S|E|W buttons do and didn't find that info on the readme either.

Anyway I can say it is ABSOLUTELY GREAT! have not tested it in combination with scenery design but I think this gadget is a HEAVEN SENT!!!

I had asked for something like that many months ago when I had to spend endless hours trying to get that correct lat/long decimals so that my scenery would not display "empty areas" on the boundaries.

If this work I can only say THANKS A LOT!!! hopefully I can get some time free to go back to FSX airport design.

Yet again thanks for this tool
 
The N S E W buttons jump to the current LOD extents in that direction. Use the generate button to reactivate to LOD buttons.

I suppose there will be a few bugs in this tool, but it's out there "as is" for now.

There isn't much use for this in FSX, but earlier versions of the sim may have use for it.

Dick
 
New version

Hi all.

Here's a newer version I like better.

Dick
 
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You can get the latitude and longitude from anywhere... most users would get it from the sim itself. Just enter the decimal degrees into the apprpriate space and click "Generate".

Dick
 
Rhumbaflappy- I seem to remember that you offered a ESRI shapefile containing these boundaries for the world sometime ago? Am I correct or does my memory fail me?

If so, where can I find it?

Cheers
 
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