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Hi,

I produced a shape file with an area of 48° 05° to 50° 10° it only has a few Polygons inside and has a filesize of 2.5MB.
MY FSX does not load the scenery any more.

My questions:
Is there an Area limit? Maybe only One degree?
Or is there an mistake in my data wich will cause this problem?

Thanks for your help
 
chrieger said:
Hi,

I produced a shape file with an area of 48° 05° to 50° 10° it only has a few Polygons inside and has a filesize of 2.5MB.
MY FSX does not load the scenery any more.

My questions:
Is there an Area limit? Maybe only One degree?
Or is there an mistake in my data wich will cause this problem?

Thanks for your help
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No area limit that I'm aware of. Sounds like something is likely wrong with the shapefile.

-Doug
 
Try to delete the holes

Dear:

Try to compile your shape without the holes, maybe is something related to the holes in your polygon, or try clockwise counter clockwise holes polygon in your main polygon.

Thanks.
Alfredo Mendiola Loyola
Lima Perú
 
I don't know exactly how many polys are the 'few' that you mentioned, neither how complex are they. But I am pretty sure there's something wrong. I have a shapefile of a large city map (see pic), with over 30 thousand lines, and it takes around 4.0MB (for the SHP file).
Have you tried to load the resulting file in TmfViewer to check the shp2vec's results? I have managed to fool shp2vec with complex data once, and its shape-clipping and area-filling generated bogus results. Didn't crash FS, but I got graphical abnormalities.

Rafa
 
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Yep, a 2.5 MB shapefile must surely contain more than a few polygons. Or are you refering to a 2.5 MB BGL file created by shp2vec?
 
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