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P3D v5 Photosceneries and Autogen Packages for the world

MatthiasKNU

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hello, I come to ask for information, I saw that the autogen of ethiopia and kenya was proposed but I cannot find photoscenry for kenya and ethiopia,
could someone help me plz ?
You've got a PM! :)
I come to ask for information was proposed but I cannot find photoscenry south AFRICA no north Africa
Sir, I already wrote a PM with all information needed 1-2 weeks ago, until now I got no reply.
 
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Dear friends!

I have not shown any news for some time.
This was not because I had stopped developing or even turned my back on P3D - on the contrary.
Throughout the summer I worked on improving my scripts, and created some test regions.

So I am very happy to be able to show you 3 pictures from 2 new countries today, which are getting much better than I would have thought myself.

Country 1:
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Country 2:

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It will still take a little while before the two countries are really finished.
But the result is already promising, which is why I wanted to show you the pictures today!
the sud africa? centre America is North
 

MatthiasKNU

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Hello together!

I have some news today that will especially please Africa fans:
I have managed to train a deep-learning model to detect buildings from 3-band satellite imagery.

This is a huge milestone, because it means that my scripts are able to create the autogen only on the basis of satellite images, in theory no further input data is necessary - even if the result is of course even better with data.
However, the computing effort is immense. I have implemented a small test area, namely Nairobi.
In the relatively small area, my alogrithm detected about 15 times as many buildings as those entered in OSM, which have so far been used mainly for autogenesis.
In red marked are the newly detected buildings, blue are the ones from OSM:
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Due to the extreme computational effort - Nairobi took more than 6 hours - it is currently not yet possible to implement entire countries with it.

However, it is very possible to significantly improve individual, small areas with this method.

And this is how the whole thing looks in the simulator now:

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Yes, and with that I wish you all a Merry Christmas now!
 

MatthiasKNU

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Good morning all together!

I'm sorry if I'm about to show a few pictures again....
But I'm really excited about the results in Central Africa, I really don't need MSFS anymore. It looks much better and more coherent in P3D now.

Port Harcourt here:
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Lagos - a city I never flew to in the sim, because my old scripts all failed with this 25-million-inhabitant juggernaut.

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Abuja
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And, most recently, Luanda in Angola:
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Ah... no problem. I've got ArcGIS Pro as well and I am good at Python. Any change I can get it to play around with it?
 

MatthiasKNU

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Ah... no problem. I've got ArcGIS Pro as well and I am good at Python. Any change I can get it to play around with it?
Please don't take it the wrong way, but these scripts took years of work and actually a whole university degree, so I simply can't give them to anyone. Sorry.
 
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Nah... no ill will taken. Just thinking to help expand your scripts to other parts of the world outside Europe. After reading the annual flight simmers survey Prepar3D is a slowly dying platform. Just thought adding more photoscenery parts rthroughout the world could help attract simmers back or extend its life. No problem, Happy New Year.
 
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Nah... no ill will taken. Just thinking to help expand your scripts to other parts of the world outside Europe. After reading the annual flight simmers survey Prepar3D is a slowly dying platform. Just thought adding more photoscenery parts rthroughout the world could help attract simmers back or extend its life. No problem, Happy New Year.
Listen, we can make the whole photoreal North America EUROPE, asia africa all continents, yes but not the autogen but download the whole nations in phototreal
 
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